Millionaire businessman James McCormick, 56, has been convicted at the Old Bailey of three counts of fraud after selling fake bomb detectors.The Advanced Detection Equipment was based on a golf ball finder device and sold for up to $40,000 (£27,000) in Iraq, Georgia, Saudi Arabia and Niger.
A particularly sociopathic scam, when you think of how it exploits an emotional intersection of confirmation bias, pseudoscience and terrorism. Previously.