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That's the question and I think that's the scam. Some people might actually buy those shares but maybe other people won't do so intentionally (but will unwittingly) because they don't manage their own portfolio.
Perhaps there are other people here who know how common that setup is where you could get screwed by a scam like this because you don't have control. I think the most recent major parallel was the crypto currency. Many people were told they should make it some percent of their portfolio and everyone who did so lost a lot of money. If they were actually running their own portfolio then clearly it's their fault but if they have a bad advisor then clearly it's the advisors fault. Or if they thought they had a stable index fund but somehow that index fund included crypto, then it's the index fund organizational team that screwed the pooch...