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[deleted] t1_iwhr9zp wrote

In the 1800s con artists used to buy vast swathes of wilderness in the US and go there with bags of gold dust and gold nuggets. They would strategically plant gold around the area, and then hire a shady geologist to say that there is gold there.

Then they’d statt a company to mine the gold, which would be massively funded. Then they’d sell all their shares and flee overseas.

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herpitusderpitus t1_iwhzn44 wrote

They present a similar scheme on sneaky Pete but with uranium and they con someone into buying the property thinking it has uranium rich soil by planting something to set off Geiger counters.I think it was cat litter or something iirc

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