Calling All Con Artists ... How Would You Play It?

[Armchair detective]

For fun, and assuming that it really was a scam at the very beginning, how did you palm aside the money, and when?
Who are you? How did this go down?

Indulge your criminal and Sherlock selves.

 

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[pepperj]

For fun, and assuming that it really was a scam at the very beginning, how did you palm aside the money, and when?
Who are you? How did this go down?

Indulge your criminal and Sherlock selves.

There's no assuming it's a scam. Palming the $$$?
Who are you!
You'll to be accountable for such blasphemy.
Lead has flown for such trash talk.
But you might see a rope even.

 

[jeff of pa]

imo the Scam is going on now to keep the advertising money
coming in.

Though in a Way I guess That Proves it Is a Money Pit !
They are Getting very Rich ! just not from old treasure

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

First and last it's a TV show, the treasure is in the ratings and sponsors advertising.

 

[DizzyDigger]

A repost....

 

[Armchair detective]

Apologies, pepper.
Please change the word DID to the word WOULD, as in how WOULD you pull such a scam off? Such a difference a single word makes.
To my mind, IF there was a scam it started around 1795. The Colonel Robert in charge of the Onslow Co seemed to be the family patriarch, well off financially, well established in his community (and a judge?). This does not seem like a person who would risk his reputation for a deliberate hoax, so he was a believer (at least in the possibility).
So...IF there was a scam, it began upstream with the original three, or Simeon Lynds, or a guy who sold the three a map?
Scams are usually concocted to make money, so questions remain - who got the money, and how was it done?

 

[BennyV]

I mean these guys running the hunt don’t seem to follow through on much of anything. They run from theory to theory. Test to test. I was watching them open core samples without waving a pin pointer on them.

Seems like they are doing good enough without our help.

 

[Limitool]

I mean these guys running the hunt don’t seem to follow through on much of anything. They run from theory to theory. Test to test. I was watching them open core samples without waving a pin pointer on them.

Seems like they are doing good enough without our help.

Yea I noticed that also. No MD or pinpointer action on a single sample ever. Go figure.

 

[TruthbeTold]

Yea I noticed that also. No MD or pinpointer action on a single sample ever. Go figure.

Yet more proof of the long running hoax.

 

[Oregon Viking]

First and last it's a TV show, the treasure is in the ratings and sponsors advertising.

Treasure!!!

The cast members make around $100,000 per episode. With an average of 20 episodes per season, that would mean that the brothers are paid about $2 million each season.
They also are all producers so they get paid every time it re-runs or goes into syndication