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https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/your-money/gold-scams-seniors/
Scams target seniors as gold prices rise
The price of gold is rising due to global economic uncertainty
Scammers are targeting seniors to steal their money
They convince victims to give them gold for safekeepinge "
. . .
Oh SURE ... WE will keep yer gold safe ......
Note that the price of gold has gone well beyond
any sane, comparative, values.
Other precious metals, platinum and such, have
been relatively FLAT over the past few years.
The "romance" of gold has caused it to soar
WELL above any sane valuation.
A *lot* of people are gonna get SCREWED real
soon now .......
Meanwhile, the CRIMINALS will take advantage.
I've heard some of these scammers on various
police TV shows - they're ULTRA-convincing.
Remember one cop, called by concerned bystanders,
who found some poor old woman buying bitcoin
as fast as she could from a store-based machine
because a scammer had told her she was about to
lose all and HAD to put it all into a bitcoin
account. The cop took her phone, informed the
scammer, yet he STILL kept insisting to put
the woman back on the line - balls !!!
Report was that she'd already donated like 75%
of her net worth to the criminal.
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