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Rust Rare Coin Inc.

Gaylen Dean Rust

ReportedNov 16, 2018
LocationLayton, UT
Amount$170,000,000

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Company / entity
Rust Rare Coin Inc.
Industry
Silver trading pool / precious metals
How investors were recruited
Friends, customers and business associates of a Salt Lake City coin dealer
Pitch & red flags
Claimed "extraordinarily high profits, averaging 20 to 25 percent per year and sometimes as high as 40 percent"; claimed $77-80M of silver stored at Brink's; fake account statements

Source

CFTC official

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