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Examples include the diamond hoax of 1872 and the Bre-X gold fraud of the mid-1990s. ... Cases have been reported in Florida, Georgia, Kansas and Oregon. [84]
International Gold Bullion Exchange was one of two major frauds involving sale of gold bullion in 1983, with Bullion Reserve of North America in Los Angeles also being shut down later that year, with losses to customers of $60 million. [6] These frauds came at a time when gold prices had soared and gold as an investment was popular.
On January 16, 2009, the United Kingdom Serious Fraud Office uncovered an £80 million buy-to-let property fraud scheme operating under a company called Practical Property Portfolio in which at least 1,750 investors were conned out of £25,000 each in return for a promise of a house in the North East of England. All five directors—John Potts ...
Fort Pierce, Florida — A collection of 37 gold coins — with a combined value estimated at more than $1 million — have been recovered after they were stolen by salvagers back in 2015 from a ...
Gold coins from the 1715 Fleet Shipwrecks in Florida. Evidence emerged in June linking Eric Schmitt, a member of the Schmitt family, to the illegal sale of the stolen coins in 2023 and 2024, FWC said.
Leaders of Florida’s largest homeowners association charged in $2 million fraud scheme David Ovalle, Linda Robertson, Charles Rabin November 15, 2022 at 7:47 AM
The union has Melissa King oversee union benefits for retirement, but she instead scams $42 million from the workers fund. In case 2, Montana ladies-man Carl Estep cons money to fund his gold scam, saying he has hundreds of barrels of 'gold concentrate' that he needs cash to refine. The drums have only dirt in them.
About Category:American fraudsters and related categories: This category's scope contains articles about fraud, which may be a contentious label. This category lists fraudsters who originated from the United States or spent a notable part of their careers in the United States.