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

[Randy Korotev]

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, Â  Thank you for calling my 
>attention to potential dubieties about a lunar 
>meteorite offered by Joel Samson. Â  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. Â  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