You should not be able to peel 
the gold off a solid gold bar.

It’s the kind of con game kids might imagine:

"What if you took real gold and coated something with it and sold it to someone like it was solid gold?" 

A jeweler in Manhattan named Ibrahim Fadl bought a 10-ounce bar of gold for $18,000 from someone he’d bought gold from before. Continue reading “The hollowed-out gold bar scam”