BU Law emerita professor Tamar Frankel dissects a manipulative email message purporting to offer a once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity. Frankel explains why the message is effective at deceiving many recipients and cautions investors to be wary of similar advertisements.
BU Law emerita professor Tamar Frankel offers some suggestions to investors about how to avoid being scammed by sophisticated con artists. Frankel points out that even sophisticated investors sometimes fall victim to complex and enticing schemes and dissects a few examples of advertisements for such schemes to illustrate her points.
BU Law emerita professor Tamar Frankel discusses Ponzi schemes, explaining how they work and why the con artists are able to deceive victims. Frankel also describes what we might learn from studying con artists and their victims.
