The immune system
Avoiding Traps
Scams change costumes every decade; their skeleton never changes. One read that installs the pattern-detector: guaranteed returns, manufactured urgency, borrowed trust, and the exit that closes.
- 01The anatomy of every investment scamPonzi 1920, altcoin 2021, AI-trading bot next year: the costume changes, the skeleton doesn't. Learn four bones and you can identify the species on sight.
- 02The too-smooth curveReal returns wobble; only fiction climbs in a straight line. Madoff's impossibly steady fund taught the most reliable fraud test there is: read the smoothness.