GOLD TEETHYou know how fashionable it is to have gold crowns – if you can afford it. Continue reading “Fake gold crowns are a sign of wealth”
Tag: gold
The fable of the buried gold
He told his slave to keep
the secret of the treasure. Continue reading “The fable of the buried gold”
The hollowed-out gold bar scam
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”
Mon Dieu! It’s a bomb! No, it’s gold! No, it’s…
What was inside this heavy,
locked metal box? Continue reading “Mon Dieu! It’s a bomb! No, it’s gold! No, it’s…”
How a scientist hid gold from the Nazis
He saved the gold by destroying it
and then placing it in plain sight. Continue reading “How a scientist hid gold from the Nazis”
Man taken by the gold chain con
What you feel when a chain is fastened around your neck is very likely what you feel when a chain is unfastened from around your neck. Continue reading “Man taken by the gold chain con”
How to seduce a victim with the gold brick scam
"…he was amazed to discover, partly exposed,
what appeared to be a large bar of gold,
weighing about one hundred pounds troy."
Continue reading “How to seduce a victim with the gold brick scam”
How to make fake gold bars
To discover a fake, you need
to drill or use ultrasound.
Last year I wrote a post about a Manhattan jeweler who was tricked when the gold bar he bought was not 100% gold. (The hollowed-out gold bar scam>>)
Continue reading “How to make fake gold bars”