Caveat investor Commentary: Consumers more at risk from financial scams as stocks slump By Chuck Jaffe, MarketWatch - Last update: 4:26 p.m. EDT June 25, 2008 BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Summertime, and the scamming is easy. The North American Securities Administrators Association issued a warning last week about summer scams, suggesting that investors protect themselves against "hot energy-related tips, speculative real estate promotions, unsolicited invitations from new online 'friends,' and complex, opaque investment products that fail to offer clear disclosures of their risks and costs." What the group failed to say -- but clearly implied -- is that the nauseating ride of the stock market and the flagging confidence of investors has made consumers more vulnerable to financial scams than at any time in memory.
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