Gold Fever Fraud Story

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Gold Fever
Like all kids we would dig holes all over our backyard look for treasure being little pirate. But one day as you sailing the high sea and you were following a map digging hole in your backyard and you found gold. You ask your parent if they actually hide the gold from you so you could find it. But you find out it wasn 't them that hid the gold from you. This is a story of a greedy family that doesn’t care about myth, but only getting rich with gold. There was also a metal green box that contain a letter in it saying “ONLY DIG UP ONE CHUNK OF GOLD PER DAY”. But the family ignore the letter and just kept on digging for more gold. Only the sister/ daughter is the only person who actually pay attention to the letter and only dug up
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They thought they were in the wrong yard so they just left the house. But the daughter could not find her parent or even her brother they were all gone. She searched all over the town even putting up missing sign with reward up to the hundred thousand but once in awhile she would get a phone call pranking her they found her parent and brother but it was all lies. For the next two year she search and search but couldn’t find them. Then one she found the old green rusted box that had thee letter in it and she actually read the whole letter it said “To whoever find this letter there is gold right under your foot ‘only dig up one chunk of gold per day and no more than that’ who ever were to dig up more than one chunk of shall turn to gold themselves. Whoever follow these instruction shall be rewarded with a special gift. You have been warn.” That is when the daughter found out that her family had gold fever and didn’t read the instruction and had turn themselves into gold. So the daughter had a mission to find her parents and brothers body, so she dug and dug and dug but never found their body. But all she could find is gold and they were getting into bigger and bigger chunk as she dug because she had followed the instruction from the

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