This is about how the good (Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela) inspired me to write my book abut scams and how to detect and avoid them... It is about how the bad (Enron and its fellow-travelers) inspired me to look at how their scams succeeded by preying on the greed and lack of curiosity of their marks... It is about how the ugly (Bernard Madoff) similarly took advantage of those unwilling to ask even the most basic questions. It is also how our power of self-delusion played into the hands of the scammers...