Is it just me or does the physicist flying to meet the south american model fall into the "can't con an honest man" bracket that the author thinks often doesn't apply? He must have noticed that attractive models in his own country weren't lining up to date him, so what did he think was going on here?

The art dealer story had a similar ring, and they mention Bernie Madoff in passing, someone who was beating the market for years, which apparently most clients assumed meant he had access to info to use for insider trading.