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

 

[SSR]

Who lured who to OI in the first place? How did relations of Anthony Vaughn's wife become aware of an abandoned and lost hole with such an interesting (and recognizable ?) story attached to it? Let's say they were lured there convincingly to be tapped. Wouldn't they be interested in having as free look as possible, just like the Laginas have been? We know they didn't sink a dime of their money in the search. That tells you right there that they were not convinced. Had they been convinced, they had the means to do all of that without raising money and dividing the spoils. The Archibalds were well off. Some of their peers living in Halifax at the time did not think that the premise at OI made much sense. I would also argue that the Archibalds would also have had enough common sense to be very suspicious. I don't think they went there to have a look unless there is something they saw as an actual possibility. The British colonial government does not dig a hole and dress it up in details of a Hebrew myth. You can be damn sure the Archibalds recognized that if they did not have a hand in creating the backstory. The very nature of the story eliminates practically anyone but Freemasons. No one else would give you those details and a solution suggested by a geometric presentation.

Why do you scam? You scam to spread the cost away from you. That has never changed. When Restall was searching he was working someone else's lease. That someone else was relying on someone's else's money and effort, because he did not have enough belief to bother on his own. Faking a treasure hole allows leases to exist. The money raised can then be paid out to the people leasing the land. There are incentives everywhere for people to embellish for people to keep peddling the story to the masses.

 

[Blackfoot58]

There are many scams perpetrated around the edge of legitimate hunts.
Look at Dr. Zahi Hawass in Egypt.
He started out looking out for Egypt’s best interest in regards to their antiquities. He became a minor US tv personality. Suddenly everything goes through him. Payola and tv time (he’s a publicity dog IMO).
There are very real treasures still to be found in the Valley of the Kings area. It won’t be found without commercialization and DR. Hawass.
He reminds me of Idi Amin. He wrote the rules. Follow them if you want to play. Oak Island is similar. Probably some “truth”, but confused by people getting rich at our expense.