However with the right knowledge it should be easy for you to tell the difference before you get scammed.
Fake pamp suisse gold bar.
These new fakes show much better quality than earlier attempts especially with the packaging.
The latest victim is the struck lady fortuna 1 ounce 9999 fine gold bullion bar from pamp produits artistiques métaux précieux in switzerland.
This system takes extremely close high resolution photos.
A real pamp 1 oz gold bar on the left and a 1 oz silver bar on the right for comparison a new wave of counterfeit pamp gold bars are making the rounds.
Early version of a fake pamp suisse gold bar center.
We expect the new counterfeit gold to start arriving in the united states and elsewhere by the end of november 2016.
What makes the latest counterfeit rather unusual is.
Chinese counterfeiters have unveiled new pamp suisse gold bars in veriscan packaging in 1 ounce and 5 gram sizes along with a 1 ounce apmex gold bar in assay card.
The fake gold bars are being made to look like the 1 oz pamp suisse gold bars.
Avoiding fake pamp suisse gold bars to combat these more sophisticated fakes pamp suisse has developed a new technology called veriscan.