I believe that fund management is not only caring for your assets, financially speaking, but also being aware of possible fraud attempts.

Stop for a moment and read the Top ten scams to look out for

Some very good pointers there - especially as most of them are rife on the internet.

I believe this comes particularly handy during the upcoming holidays, when unscrupulous services are just getting ready for take your money and run.

Unfortunately many closed end funds generally have their final entry day on December the 31st and this is where the bad eggs generally try and push their products to clients as well.

Dont make the mistake of thinking that all end of year funds are cowboys, ivesting in a closed end fund could be very lucrative especially in the Insurance Markets

Thanks very much for them links MasterMind, theres some very good and valid point's there!

No problem, I believe that forums like ours are a great way to share useful resources and discuss matters that might save us from from unnecessary headaches

Yes they definatly are Mastermind!
I always look forward to reading your posts there always very usefull and informative!

I think scammers make most of their money off of the young and the very old. The new graduate who is just out on their own or the little old man in his apartment. Those of us who have dealt with scammers before are so aware of their ways we can smell them a mile away. What a sad world we live in.

Yeah, interesting list. Those lottery win advertisements are a pain where the sun don’t shine. How do they find us?

Interesting question

When you get them by email is easy figure out that a site's owner shared your data, but when you begin to receive spam in an unknown address, how did they find you?

Nigerian scams are the worst.
Their stories and schemes are so insanely farfetched, they might as well not bother.
Its surprising how many people still fall for it.

Perhaps due to the number of scams they run it's hard for people being aware of all of them