The Art of the Con--Learning from Bernard Madoff

Scientific American by Michael Shermer | Mar. 4, 2009 (Special Report)
A Skeptic's advice on how to avoid falling prey to con artists

"The basic mechanism explaining the success of Ponzi schemes is the tendency of humans to model their actions, especially when dealing with matters they don't fully understand, on the behavior of other humans," Full Story »

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