What makes the latest counterfeit rather unusual is.
Fake pamp suisse gold bar.
The latest victim is the struck lady fortuna 1 ounce 9999 fine gold bullion bar from pamp produits artistiques métaux précieux in switzerland.
Early version of a fake pamp suisse gold bar center.
Pamp s veriscan program is available as an ios app for iphone 6 6s or newer covers a limited number of products or as pc software to use with a specific document.
Chinese counterfeiters have unveiled new pamp suisse gold bars in veriscan packaging in 1 ounce and 5 gram sizes along with a 1 ounce apmex gold bar in assay card.
The fake gold bars are being made to look like the 1 oz pamp suisse gold bars.
Avoiding fake pamp suisse gold bars to combat these more sophisticated fakes pamp suisse has developed a new technology called veriscan.
Origins of fake gold bars fake gold bars can come from a variety of places such as amazonor ebay.
These new fakes show much better quality than earlier attempts especially with the packaging.
This system takes extremely close high resolution photos.
While the precious metal verifier using the large wand is able to distinguish the genuine bar from the counterfeit bar this test is not reliable on the smaller fractional bars.