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A new gold bar scam is fleecing unsuspecting victims across the U.S. out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. It starts with a phone call, where an official-sounding person convinces you they’re ...
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center has seen a spike in similar gold bar scams, which target vulnerable seniors. Between May and December 2023, victims lost more than $55 million to this ...
A Nebraska couple was recently scammed out of $115,000 in a “very unusual” and “scary” fraud scheme, investigators say. A couple — ages 71 and 68 — were at their home in Lancaster ...
Don't let the promise of quick cash for your gold jewelry lure you into a bad deal from a buyer using an inaccurate scale. New Jersey's Office of Weights and Measures has cited 49 businesses for ...
Gold dust sellers – This scam persuades an investor to purchase a trial quantity of real gold, then eventually delivers brass filings or similar. [citation needed] Counterfeit gold coins. [34] Shares in fraudulent mining companies with no gold reserves, or potential of finding gold. For example, the Bre-X scandal in 1997. [67]
The Better Business Bureau has compiled its naughty list of the top 12 scams that take advantage of shoppers during the holiday season.
A recovery room scam is a form of advance-fee fraud where the scammer (sometimes posing as a law enforcement officer or attorney) calls investors who have been sold worthless shares (for example in a boiler-room scam), and offers to buy them, to allow the investors to recover their investments. [92]
In mineral exploration, salting is the fraudulent practice of adding valuable metals and gemstones, particularly gold or diamond, to ore samples from a mine to inflate the apparent value of the deposit.