Some idjits bought into similar crap in the 90's.

Bo Gritz went around the country offering BS 8 hour "training" sessions at hotel conference centers $200. per person for (4) 2 hour rushed sessions on (largely) a bunch of unviable topics, all the while pushing supplies and trying to rachet up interest in "Almost Heaven." That was some tract of land he bought in Idaho and it was where supposedly all these "like minded" people were going to move and live. He painted quite the picture of the spread. Looking through the literature a 2 acre plot was (early 1990's price mind you) about $15,000. as the starting point. Middle of frickin no where Idaho and $7500. an acre almost 30 years ago....  Meanwhile I bought 5 acres not far from Florida in Georgia not many years later for $3K total...

Talked to one customer that did actually buy some land there. He was one of MANY later trying to sue Gritz because nothing was as it was presented. There was not even dirt roads into the land, no infrastructure as was presented, etc. And of course only a few folks were gullible enough to actually drop cash on the deal.

Gritz's wife at the time, who looked and acted the part of a huge gold digger, later took off. I'm guessing she took a BOATLOAD OF CASH with her. And Gritz "shot" himself via a squib round (largely seen as an attention ploy. Then later he stole his "best friend" Jack McLamb's wife and married her, LOL) Gritz was always pushing cash payments for everything at these little training events (I attended two of them in Jax), all supply sales were cash only and the general mantra pushed was "get rid of your FRN's because in the next year or so the dollar is going to collapse and they aren't going to be worth anything anyways."

Hopefully people are seeing a very similar theme here to what comes up very regularly in survival circles even now. Nothing new under the sun....

Gritz had some followers for a while, a LOT of folks drank the koolaid and you couldn't tell them otherwise. I was maybe 19 or 20 years old at the time. I remember a buddy of mine going to the Friday night "rally" before the Saturday "training"-   the "patriot rally" Friday night was essentially a MARKETING PLATFORM for Gritz to push the training the next day, the supplies, the "almost heaven" land, etc. along with the standard "economy is collapsing tomorrow so get rid of your FRN's" approach that he got from the precious metals dealers. And of course you could buy PM's there also, well ORDER them anyways, you rarely SAW a lot of metals there.

And of course the irony being this guy and his crew were touting "your FRN's are going to be worthless soon" crap all the while ACCEPTING THEM FOR PAYMENT THEMSELVES!!!
My friend at the time pointed that out- "if this dude really believed his own BS, he wouldn't be taking cash in payment."

Moral of the story, there has always been and there will always be scammers like this in the survival movement. Avoid them. If it sounds too good to be true well.....