https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laird#Souvenir_plots_and_false...
Sure, much different also given that the money involved is much less, still a good proxy for gullibility.
Lord Hicks of Lochaber would like to have a word with you:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/essex-firem...
Bit of an aside, but I find it odd how hostile people are to Americans retaining any connection to their European ancestry.
If I tell people I'm half-Indian and half-Persian nobody bats an eye. If my wife tells people she's half-Irish and half-Czech she gets treated like she's not supposed to have any heritage or culture other than whatever people imagine as "white American".
It's strange to me that there aren't more coordinated investigations. Individually, these will often be smaller sums, nothing that'll justify international police actions, but collectively the damage is huge. Even just one gang will reach millions of USD. They're not criminal master minds, Youtubers are able to track them down.
- it's surrounded by private property, and the neighbor must offer some sort of passage through their land to yours. If it's a field, it does mean to destroy permanently part of it so you can go through.
- it has at least one border with public property, and the state must provide a real asphalt road to access it.
However, you are left to organize traversal of your own land, so if your house is deep inside it, you get to pay. And of course, getting power lines and water pipes connected to it is still 100% at your charge.
Now, many years later, many people are still hanging onto the properties and are unable to unload them as they cannot conceive that their holdings are worthless. The shady RE companies sold their information (or passed it along within their 'organization') and the land purchasers are now preyed upon again; this time, by scammers who claim they can sell the property (but require a ~$3000 payment in advance).
This PDF is the crypto equivalent of that forest land buyers list, and everyone on it can look forward to being preyed upon for the rest of their life.
(Here is a great video about the whole sordid thing, Japanese only though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPzTDRmtozc)