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In 1993, an obscure prospector stumbled across a neglected property in Borneo and turned it into a mining site worth billions. Michael De Guzman fooled both the mining industry and the entire financial world and so became a multi-millionaire. Using salted samples with gold from his wedding ring, de Guzman fooled the gold industry into investing in his mines – on land owned by Bre-X.

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