Gold bar scam

logger7

Investigating Agency: Owatonna Police Department

Offense: Theft

Date: 11/03/26

Location: Owatonna, MN

Detectives with the Owatonna, MN police department are working an on-going investigation involving gold bar scams. A suspect has been arrested who was actively picking up gold bars from scam victims in MN and WI.

Detectives recovered two gold kilo bars and are requesting assistance in identifying a potential victim or seller of the bars listed below.

(2) Metalor Kilo bars

Anyone with information contact:

Christian Berg

Detective #7131

Owatonna Police Department

204 E. Pearl Street

Dispatch: 507-451-8232

Desk/Office: 507-774-7220

or

Doug Davis

817-723-7231

Doug@numismaticcrimes.org

tincup

Appears to be a rather wide spread scam, especially targeting the elderly.

"It usually starts with a pop-up, an email or a phone call warning that a bank account has been hacked or an identity stolen. A "fraud investigator" or "federal agent" then offers the fix: liquidate everything, buy gold to keep it safe, and give it to a courier who shows up with a password."

https://zerohedge.com/personal-finance/old-people-are-falling-gold-scams-crazy

GoldFinger1969

I can't see anybody but a person with mental deficiencies falling for this.

logger7

@GoldFinger1969 said:
I can't see anybody but a person with mental deficiencies falling for this.

Lots of spam calls these days even if you are enlisted in the federal "do not call" list; in fact the spam calls went up when I got enlisted. Probably ai is driving some of this, IDing good targets.

RedneckHB

@GoldFinger1969 said:
I can't see anybody but a person with mental deficiencies falling for this.

Did you mean the elderly who are most often the victims?