Inheritance Gold Bar Scam

This is a well known scam where the perpetrator is alarmingly and convincingly kind and charming and carefully woos you into an intense on line relationship. Then after a month or so opens the scam door by saying he has an inheritance located in another country and says he has to fly there to claim it and move it to the USA…complete with flight boarding passes real flight numbers and videos and pix in airports and in an actual plane on route. Mine was a flight to New Zealand…could be anywhere.

Taking his time with complete and seemingly very accurate details and timely contacts, the paramour then might even show a video of the gold bars and someone explaining there is a recovery fee of $12,000 of which he only has $7,000…and asks if you can help with the balance of $5k, then he can ship the gold directly to you for safe keeping while he returns to the USA. He even goes so far as to lure you into thinking and believing his logic that this huge amount of money will go “a long way for us!”

OFC, depending on how convincing he has been in setting up a love relationship, some might fall for it and many have. I didn’t … did my investigation and found him to be a scam artist…highly convincing, and very skilled, and complete in his setup. But ultimately, the logic of someone sending millions in gold to you to hold for “us” for a measly $5k is preposterous given sane thinking.

I’ve since discovered there are many variations on the same theme. My perpetrator found me here on Reddit easily by responding to a response I made on a legitimate sub. And he was amazingly convincing. Now on this side of it I see some of the red flags that had me suspicious from the start. Just beware…