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herpitusderpitus t1_iwhzn44 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL Of the Bre-X fraud. The Canadian mining company was a penny stock that reportedly found billions of dollars of gold in Indonesia. The stock skyrocketed but collapsed following the suicide of one of the geologists and discovery that the core samples were salted. by jamescookenotthatone

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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