If it is too good to be true

I was reading Yahoo when this add popped up and I really couldn't believe it. They are selling 1 ounce Silver Eagles for $10 each.

What is the catch?

https://www.coinshx.com/1-Ounce-Eagle-Brilliant-Uncirculated-p1447840.html

 

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They are also selling 1 oz gold coins for 20 USD, just looks like a scam to me. Probably send you a fake coin and people will try to pass em off as the real thing to some novice collector.

 

ROC, rip off city?

 

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The chances of these coins not being fake are about the same as winning the lottery, finding a 43 copper cent, and getting struck by a meteorite, all within the space of an hour.

 

looks the same here, also from a Yahoo add
https://www.aiicoins.com/1-Ounce-Eagle-Brilliant-Uncirculated-p1523024.html

 

Here's the address listed at the bottom of the page. You'd think they'd be a little more creative.

 

Now, you've been told a thousand times not to exaggerate.

 

It is a very scary to click on any story or ad on Yahoo. Virtually all their advertisers have links going strange places. Most virus' are in there somewhere.

 

These ads (same format, same design style) used to be everywhere on Facebook and Instagram. I don't see them anymore. Maybe (hopefully), Facebook and Instagram caught on and blocked them. Some of the ads even used to show a presentation case that supposedly comes with the ASEs. But the photo of the presenation case shows that it's taken from Bradford Exchange. The image was just stolen from the internet and used by these sellers.

 

I don't do links but it sounds like a scam to me.

 

If you go to the "Contact Us" page all they have is a phone number and email.

No physical location.

That is usually a red flag that it's being sold by people overseas and likely counterfeits are being sold with the sellers knowing full well that they are outside the jurisdiction of any law enforcement who may act on behalf of the victims who buy these fake products.

 

Here's what their ad looks like. Very similar (even identical) to many I used to see on social media.



And in one particular photo, they've even blatantly stolen an ad from The Patriotic Mint. LOL. Too funny....

 

Thanks, I appreciate it.

 

I have multiple anti virus protectors on my computer, some of the top ones. When i go to the link my computer tells me"This site is not safe"! lol. doesnt say that exactly but thats what it says, somewhere along the lines of risk of virus and not safe.

 

wrong emoji, lol

 

Here is a $10 ASE that was given to me. He had bought 10 of them from an ad online.

 

I still see them all the time. I report every single one. They pop up under different names but they are ALL FAKES. Its funny how Farcebook lets these guys go unchecked but does virtually nothing about fake anything else, unless you're of a certain political persuasion.

 

Look at the date...stuff from the mint doesn't look like that!