R0ach's Utopia:

Surely those gold ingots are silver ingots with gold coating? 

Hard to fool people if you're using silver. It has merely half the density of gold so it would be much better to use tungsten which has a similar density to gold at a much lower price than silver to maximize the profit on the scam.
On another note, cereals doused in eggnog work surprisingly well.
Oh yeah. Eggnog and bacon make everything seem good.