Scammed: How Savvy Investors, Johnny Depp and Regular Folks Get Duped

January 21, 2020 by Jane Wollman Rusoff

One of the most bizarre financial scams in history pivots on a quack doctor and the body part of a goat — anatomy you’d hesitate to chat about with someone you just met. But Ben Carlson, director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management, writes all about this shocking fraud in his new book, “Don’t Fall for It: A Short History of Financial Scams” (Wiley-January 2020).

When it comes to getting sucked in, “people want to believe that if something seems too good to be true, it’s not too good to be true for them because they feel they deserve it,” Carlson tells ThinkAdvisor in an interview.

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Originally Posted at ThinkAdvisor on January 17, 2020 by Jane Wollman Rusoff.