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Scam of the day – March 11, 2026 – Texas Arrests Highlight Exploding Gold Bar Scam Targeting Older Adults

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It was as recently as the Scam of the Day for February 23rd that I told you that the Boston office of the FBI had issued a warning scams involving people lured under false pretenses to cash in their savings, buy gold bars and deliver the gold to scammers.  According to recent FBI figures this scam is getting worse with more than $262 million lost to this scam between January and October of 2025.   I described this scam in the Scam of the day for…
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Scamicide broke the news in on Wednesday, March 11, 2026.
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