[meteorite-list] Huge Increase in Meteorite "help me" or "buy me"emails.

[Jeff Kuyken]

Welcome to the club! ;-)

There has been a bit more in the last month or two but I've been getting one 
or two of them everyday for the last ~8 years anyway. I guess that's 
somewhere around 3000 emails of which about 4 or 5 were meteorites. I can 
tell you one thing though... not much surprises me anymore!

Cheers,

Jeff


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Galactic Stone & Ironworks" <meteoritemike at gmail.com>
To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 3:16 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Huge Increase in Meteorite "help me" or "buy 
me"emails.


> Hi List!
>
> Are any of the other dealers noticing a big increase in emails from
> unknown people wanting you to ID their suspected meteorite or buy
> their suspected meteorite?
>
> In the last couple of weeks, I have gotten a flood of emails from
> people around the country and the world - all wanting me to identify
> their obvious meteorwrong, or to purchase their meteorwrong.  One guy
> claimed to be in China, but had a Russian email address, and he
> attached some photos of an obvious industrial slag which he claimed
> was a meteorite and he even had a bogus "lab report" to prove it.
> Some of these are honest folks who are confused or misinformed, but
> many are scammers.  Do the scammers think because we deal meteorites,
> we must be dumb or something?  Because some of these so-called
> "meteorites" they try to push on me are obviously bogus - so bogus a
> blindman or a fool could tell they are not meteorites.
>
> Is this another after-effect from the Meteorite Men TV show?  Or just a 
> fluke?
>
> Best regards,
>
> MikeG
>
>
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