How To Tell If Your Gold Is Real

I watched a guy walk into a pawn shop in 2023 with what he thought was a 100-gram secondary market gold bar. He’d bought it from a "friend of a friend" for a 15% discount under spot price because the seller supposedly needed fast cash for a medical emergency. He’d done the "magnet test" he saw on a viral video, and since the bar didn't stick, he felt like a genius. When the shop owner ran it through a Precious Metals Verifier, the screen flashed red. It was a thick tungsten core wrapped in a heavy gold plate. The victim lost nearly $6