Hello and welcome to another Working From Home episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with James Harkin, with Andrew Hunter Murray and Anna Tijinski,
and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with fact number one, and that's my fact this week, my fact is two days after receiving his latest book,
The Author of Annals of Gullibility, Why We Get Jupt and How to Avoid It,
lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in a Ponzi scheme.
How embarrassing.
Yeah, he did admit that it was embarrassing, he kind of thinks it's funny now.
With the distance of time to look back at it, but this is a guy called Stephen Greenspan, and he'd written this book,
and it was meant to sort of help you to understand how not to be duped by exactly the thing that caught him off guard.
So he got caught off guard by the greatest Ponzi scheme of them all, which was the Bernie Madoff,
which set so many people around the world, losing thousands and millions in some cases.
It's the biggest of its kind, and yeah, it was recommendation via his sister,
and two days after receiving his latest book, he lost 400,000.
Wow.
In his advice as to how to avoid it, did it include things like, you know,
don't take advice from ill-informed siblings,
and don't invest with people who have surnames that sound suspiciously like the phrase made off.