If your gold bar or coins don't have a hallmark, it's likely they're fake. In the U.S., the most common hallmark for gold is "Au," which stands for Aurum, the Latin word for gold.

SINGAPORE: Three men who used fake gold ingots to cheat a woman of S$4,000 (US$3,070) were sentenced to six months of jail on Wednesday (Oct 9). The men - Wen Yanchun, 52, Zhu Xiaoyuan, 51 and& ...

Maryland detectives nabbed gold bar thief using fake UPS package from Kentucky. Story by Dan Morse • 1w. The scammers already had conned their mark out of $789,000 in gold bars, ...

Moroccan customs authorities have intensified investigations into a network suspected of distributing counterfeit gold between Casablanca, Meknes, and Tangier, according to well-informed sources. The ...

Maryland Gold bar scammers bilk nearly $1M from Maryland woman, police say. Gold bar fraud trend involves parcels of precious metals, parking lot meet-ups and fake federal agents.

Fake federal agent gets prison time for scamming 95-year-old in gold bar theft plot. by Sana Azem . Wed, December 11th 2024 at 5:23 PM.

A Joshua Tree man was arrested on Sunday, accused of selling fake gold. The sale of the supposed fake precious metal happened in Yucca Valley, where the victim reported the transaction to San ...

An Ahmedabad jeweller, Nilay Shah, has reported a cheating incident to Sarkhej police. A man named Ranjit Bharwadia allegedly exchanged a fake gold chain for a genuine gold bar worth approximately ...

Police are asking anyone who has bought gold bars or coins in Reidsville to have the gold tested by a gold dealer. Those who have bought fake gold are asked to call Sgt. Payton Lingle at 336-347-2338.

The three Singaporeans were at a Serangoon Central multi-storey carpark at around 10.30pm on July 10 when they allegedly duped a man into believing they were selling him a 100g gold bar worth $9,800.

Local Crime & Public Safety Maryland detectives nabbed gold bar thief using fake UPS package from Kentucky. Montgomery County prosecutors secure first conviction this year in schemes totaling more ...