The SEC warns people about about these stocks and scams. People like Madoff violated a trust with people of his own faith which is perhaps a bigger crime in the end.
The people involved in this case violated a trust with people who were members here. They paid for a fair and honest website and were dealt something entirely different.
"For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game." -Grantland Rice