Gold is valuable, which attracts professional fraudsters, counterfeit gold, and phantom deals.

Advertisement/Advertising – This article is distributed on behalf of U.S. GoldMining Inc. and Blue Moon Metals Inc., with whom SRC swiss resource capital AG has paid IR consulting agreements. Creator: SRC swiss resource capital AG · Author: Ingrid Heinritzi · First published: February 26, 2026, 4:30 p.m. Zurich/Berlin

Fake gold is in circulation and fraudsters are using increasingly sophisticated tricks. As recent cases show, neither modern testing equipment nor checking the diameter and weight of coins can help citizens. For example, a customer in Munich bought a Maple Leaf coin on the internet. According to his testing device, everything was fine. Then came the nasty surprise: the core was made of the heavy metal tungsten, surrounded by 20 percent gold. Since gold and tungsten are almost identical in density, this popular scam makes the weight and density suggest that the coin is real gold.

In Ansbach, fraudsters even opened a shop in the city center. Gold was sold to the shop by unsuspecting customers, the shop made only a small down payment, and then the shop was abandoned and closed. Online platforms are also a playground for counterfeiters. Perfectly sealed and accompanied by a fake certificate, the counterfeits are very tempting. It is therefore important to pay attention to credibility, as fraudsters are becoming increasingly brazen. When buying securities from gold companies, on the other hand, you can be sure that they own real gold in their projects.

Time and again, there are also people who accidentally throw gold treasures in the trash (this happens repeatedly, for example in Italy or Dubai) or hide them in such a way that they remain undiscovered for a long time or forever. Investors looking at gold companies should pay attention to the location of the projects (secure jurisdiction, stable political and legal framework), experienced management, financial status (is the company well-financed or perhaps even debt-free), and whether gold resources and reserves have already been proven.

Blue Moon Metals – https://www.commodity-tv.com/ondemand/companies/profil/blue-moon-metals-inc/ – owns the Nussir copper-gold-silver project and the NSG copper-zinc-gold-silver project in Norway. Both are progressing very well. An underground access is currently being created in Nussir. Then there is the Blue Moon zinc-copper-gold-silver project in the USA. The acquisition of the Springer Mine has been completed, securing the infrastructure necessary for mineral processing in Nevada.

U.S. GoldMining – https://www.commodity-tv.com/ondemand/companies/profil/us-goldmining-inc/ – stands for gold and copper. The company owns the promising Whistler project in Alaska (100 percent), which contains large gold and copper resources. Drilling has revealed the potential for new gold-copper porphyry deposits there.

Current company information and press releases from U.S. GoldMining (- https://www.resource-capital.ch/en/companies/us-goldmining-inc/ -) and Blue Moon Metals (- https://www.resource-capital.ch/en/companies/blue-moon-metals-inc/ -).

Further information is also available in our new precious metals report at the following link: https://www.resource-capital.ch/en/reports/view/precious-metals-report-2025-11-update/

Sources:

https://people.com/man-accidentally-throws-20-bars-gold-garbage-11907198;

https://presse-augsburg.de/polizei-warnt-vor-betrug-falsche-edelmetallhaendler-in-ansbach-ermitteln-lassen-ueber-100-000-euro-verschwinden/1113966/;

https://www.resource-capital.ch/en/reports/view/precious-metals-report-2025-11-update/

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