Fledgling mining company BRE-X claimed to discover world's largest gold deposit, becoming an overnight behemoth.

Based on the true story of Canada's infamous BRE-X fraud in which a fledgling mining company became an overnight behemoth by claiming to have discovered the largest deposit of gold on the planet, but when the truth came out - that there was NO GOLD at all, thousands of investors were wiped out to the tune of $6 billion.—Anonymous