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A 24-year-old Greenwich man posed as a hedge fund manager and took more than $33,000 from an unemployed Stamford man who was promised $7,000 a month in returns on his investment, police said. Mark Traisman, 24, of 1 Indian Chase Road, Greenwich, was arrested Monday morning at the Stamford Police Department and charged with first-degree larceny and second-degree forgery. He was brought to the Wilton Police Department shortly afterward to face larceny charges, police said. Stamford police Sgt. Peter diSpagna said a 26-year-old Stamford man and his 53-year-old mother came to the Greenwich Police Department in August to report a con in which Traisman allegedly posed as a hedge fund manager and tricked the son into giving him a $30,000 investment. He allegedly told the 26-year-old son that in exchange for the investment he could give him $7,000 to $8,000 a month in returns. [Stamford Advocate via BI]