Junior fraud squad

Want to teach your — or your clients’ — children how to avoid getting duped in an investment scam?

The North American Securities Administrators Association has launched a free interactive online program called FSI: Fraud Scene Investigator, which teaches students — the next generation of investors — how to research companies, examine stock charts, read investment account statements and understand the warning signs of fraudulent investment pitches. Users help dig out the truth about a million-dollar investment fraud and put the mysterious con man, Mr. X, behind bars.

If only Bernard Madoff’s victims had received this kind of education in their youth.