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Folks will shell out a lot for some genuine first-gen Pokemon cards, but $375,000 would be historical. That’s what one charitable investor was about to pay for a box of cards before he realized, just in the nick of time, that they were all fakes. Here’s how it went down. …

For a certain generation of would-be-trainers out there, there’s this one universal truth: Pokemon made young grifters out of all of us. Do you remember ducking out of phys-ed to swap cards behind the basketball courts? How about tearfully begging your parents for just one more booster pack, all in …