The document discusses 5 common financial scams: penny stocks, lottery scams, investment scams, phone scams, and email scams from abroad. It notes that men and the elderly are most often targeted. Financial fraud has risen to $50 billion per year. The document also includes interviews with two individuals, one who has not fallen for a scam personally but knows of the risks, and another who knows an uncle who lost money to email scams.

1. Shannon Martensson
Shannon Martensson
Selected Article:
5 most common
financial scams
http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/12/pf/financial-scams
Professor Klinkowstein
Professor Klinkowstein

2. Shannon Martensson
Professor Klinkowstein
Free
lunch
Look
out for!
Penny
stocks
You
won the
lottery!
Cold
calls
E-mails
from
abroad

3. Shannon Martensson
Professor Klinkowstein
What are
financial scams?
Men and elderly are
the biggest targets
E-mails and phone calls
promising money
Financial fraud has risen to
$50 billion/year
Promising too good
investments to be true

4. Shannon Martensson
Professor Klinkowstein
“People often fail to report financial fraud—either because they
don’t know who to report it to or because they’re too embarrassed”
FINRA
FINRA is the United States
Financial Industry Regulatory
Authority, Inc.

5. Shannon Martensson
Ethnographic Research
Professor Klinkowstein

6. Shannon Martensson
Professor Klinkowstein
The Hammer Lab
-Everyone was within the
age range of 19-22.
-It was a highly calm and
quiet setting.

7. Shannon Martensson
Professor Klinkowstein
The Hammer Lab
-It is crowded and the
noise level has raised.
-There are people from
many different
nationalities.

8. Shannon Martensson
Professor Klinkowstein
Christina Kaschte
Have you ever been a
victim of financial
fraud?
“I have never
personally, I like to
believe I‟m smarter than
that!”

9. Shannon Martensson
Professor Klinkowstein
Edwin Samuels
Do you know anyone who
has fallen victim to a
financial scam over the
internet?
“My uncle lost a few
thousand dollars when
falling victim to „junk email‟
scams”

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Diagonals
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Arcs
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Irregular Shapes
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Grids
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Monochromes
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Neutrals
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High Key
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Low Key
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Combination
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19. Shannon Martensson
Professor Klinkowstein
Combination: Black and White