[meteorite-list] [IMCA] Scam Artist - Joel Samson - Fake Lunar Meteorites

From: Randy Korotev <korotev_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 12:13:17 -0500
Message-ID: <201105121710.p4CHA3Q09704_at_levee.wustl.edu>

The rock that Joel Samson mentions in his e-mail
to me of 2+ years ago (below) is depicted here:

http://meteorites.wustl.edu/meteorwrongs/stone.jpg

It looks like a weathered volcaniclastic rock to
me. And, OK, it does also resemble a lunar breccia.

Randy Korotev
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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:39:40 +0800
From: "Joel Samson" <joel.mae2 at gmail.com>
To: korotev at wustl.edu
Subject: my first lunar rock found in our country the PHILIPPINES!

dear sir this photo is a similar stones to dhofar
908 group tkw of the rock is 1738grams.THANKS! JOEL


stone.jpg
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At 09:33 AM 2011-05-12 Thursday, you wrote:
>Hello List, ? Thank you for calling my
>attention to potential dubieties about a lunar
>meteorite offered by Joel Samson. ? The
>depicted meteorite Joel Samson posted on
>Facebook which is held between two fingers on
>the photo is definitely an authentic piece of
>the lunar meteorite Dho 908. It is one of our
>own photographs but we never gave it to him. So
>we do not know how he got hold of the photo and
>we did not give him the authorization to use it
>either. ? We don???t know whether the specimen
>he offers for sale is identical with the photo
>or not. ? What we do know is that Joel Samson
>is in possession of material which has a distant
>similarity with Dho 908. As the material
>presumably is not meteoritic he was asked
>several times by competent side to have the
>specimens scientifically examined. To our
>knowledge he did not follow this advice. In case
>of doubts about the authenticity of a specimen
>offered as a Dho 908 we can offer support with
>the identification. ? With very best regards ? Siegfried & Team
Received on Thu 12 May 2011 01:13:17 PM PDT