This week on the perfect scam.

You own the barrels.

They're stored in a bonded warehouse, generally in the vicinity of the distillery.

It's your property, and typically what you do is you sell it either back to the distillery,

and then they bottle it for you and put their label on it.

Some bottles can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, you know, if it's a bright bottle.

Do you remember how you felt when you bought the whiskey?

I started thinking, oh, okay, this is my future. This is my Social Security.

This is my nest egg for six or eight years.

Welcome back to The Perfect Scam.

I'm your host, Bob Sullivan.

When we think of investments, we usually think of stocks and bonds, maybe even real estate,

but there are many different kinds of investments, like today's topic, whiskey.

After all, whiskey often increases in value over time.

Now, all investing carries risk, but these kinds of non-traditional investments really do come with some extra hazards.

Never invest in something you don't understand and you haven't fully researched, because, as you'll

see, scans can lurk many places, even at the bottom of a whiskey barrel. But make sure you're sitting down for the end

of this story, perhaps with a tasty beverage of your choosing, because it's not something

I ever recall happening on the perfect scam before. Tell me, before we get to our story,

are you or have you been a whiskey drinker?

I remain just moderate-level drinker.

I'm still learning to appreciate the variety of whiskey.

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