According to the report in today's Strait Times, more than 100 "investors" file police report against gold buyback firm, Suisse International. From the report, around 250 people have been scammed in this "too good to miss" gold buy back scheme and the total amount involved is around $35 millions.
I have no interest to find out more about the scheme or why they keep succeeding in scamming people out of their hard-earn money? Most of the time, GREED is the main culprit.
Having said that, there is always learning (or re-learning) lessons from such incident. Following are my take:
Learning Point #1 : If the promise seems too good to be true, most of the time, it is NOT true!
Learning Point #2 : Most of the time, those get rich quick scheme is TRUE! But, the issue is they are the one get rich and NOT you! ......