Wealthy investors from almost every industry, from finance to Hollywood, are terrified that the next money manager they choose might turn out to be nothing more than a malicious conman.

各行各业的投资者，不论是金融业，还是好莱坞，都害怕自己所选择的理财人可能就是恶毒的骗子。

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All of his friends jumped at the bait when the conman said he would pay them 10 times as much if they lent him money.

当那个骗子说如果他的朋友们借给他钱，他会返还所借钱数的10倍时，他所有的朋友都落入了那个圈套。

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Questions from TV critics about how long the series, about a bound-to-be-discovered conman, can last have been convincingly parried by the show's producers (see "Lone Star Could Be A Spectacular Failure"), who maintain they're more concerned with having too many plot points than too few.

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