Perhaps you saw Chris Hansen's latest undercover camera Dateline show over the weekend. Don't worry, you don't have to lock up your kids this week; in Tricks of the Trade, Hansen went after shady investment "experts" schilling their products to senior citizens, not neighborhood pedophiles.

It wasn't Hansen's strongest series. His whole schtick hung on getting insurance agents to duck questions about penalties that could be incurred if seniors, who could die in the next few years, removed money early from annuity investment accounts. While some of the insurance agents dodged questions or glossed over a few details, none of them outright lied.

But just like To Catch a Predator, where Hansen and Perverted Justice found their project ending up with one of their targets killing himself, Tricks had some of its own maladies. Namely, it appears Hansen is guilty of some misleading of his own.

Misleading viewers, that is.

As part of a rogue insurance agent's sales pitch, he might purchase a glossy magazine that, for a fee, he can have his name and photo stuck on the cover. The magazine referenced is Financial Playbook, which comes with a cover story on fed chairman Ben Bernake, an inset photo of the agent, and, inside, a ghost-written article bylined to the agent. They use these to establish authority and build trust with their clients.

(Watch the clip to see the whole process.)

To prove just how smarmy such a gimmick is, Hansen said he visited Playbook's website and, after paying $1,500 for the privilege, scored his own magazine.

Except, according to the magazine, that never happened.

In a defensive move, Playbook posted its own story about Hansen on its website, saying: "We recently have discovered that Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC has attempted to create his own unique publication through us, posing as a financial professional. Our team caught on to this and promptly canceled his order, refunding Dateline's money 100%. We have NOT shipped any product to him, so what you may have seen on Dateline is actually just a mock-up proof of an order that was never completed, nor paid for (they won't ever mention this to you because it doesn't help their ratings)."

If true, Hansen never mentioned it on the show. Instead, he shows a copy of the magazine he says he bought just like any shady salesman, without mentioning it's a fake. And that, friends, is pretty shady.