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This is story of “Operation Goldfinger,” how police sprang into action to try and prevent con artists from stealing a hunk of a Georgia couple’s life savings. A GA couple was about to hand ...
The con artist pretends to accidentally drop his wallet in a public place. After an unsuspecting victim picks up the wallet and offers it to the con artist, the scam begins. The artist accuses the victim of stealing money from the wallet and threatens to call the police, scaring the victim into returning the allegedly stolen money.
As strange as the gold bar scam strategy may seem, a similar plot was recently carried out in Maryland — leading to the arrest of a 34-year-old California man, Wenhui Sun, Maryland authorities ...
Gregor MacGregor (1786–1845): Scottish con man who tried to attract investment and settlers for the non-existent country of "Poyais". [2]Jeanne of Valois-Saint-Rémy (1756–1791): Chief conspirator in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, which further tarnished the French royal family's already-poor reputation and, along with other causes, eventually led to the French Revolution.
In the third and the biggest Philippine Ponzi scam (involving $150 million and $250 million, respectively), criminal charges, based on a suit filed by 21,000 complainants, were filed in June 2008, with the Department of Justice, against Performance Investments Products Corp (PIPC) officers and incorporators for violation of the Securities ...
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Gold smuggling was rampant in India until liberalisation, which repealed The Gold (Control) Act, 1968 that prohibited the import of gold except for jewellery. [4] In the 2011–12 period India's current account deficit burgeoned to 4.2% of its GDP. [5] This was due to high prices of oil and gold, which the country imports in huge volumes. [6]