Re: [meteorite-list] Final report on analysis of fake martian meteorites sold on ebay

2012-06-06 Thread info
As was previously reported in this forum last month, ebay seller
steelhorse1994 was dumping fake moon and mars rock displays on
unsuspecting buyers through ebay listings for over a year. My
involvement started a few months ago when I recognized the displays were
suspect and made it my mission to uncover the fraud. I obtained one of
these displays and solicited the assistance of Dr. Randy Korotev at
Washington University to analyze it with neutron activation. His initial
report to me last month indicated that it was NOT a rock from space and
was indeed terrestrial. I immediately contacted eBay. Two days later,
the fraud was no longer selling his fakes on eBay. There is still the
occasional ebay seller reselling some of these fakes, an unfortunate
repercussion of over 1000 bogus items dumped on eBay. 

Be on the lookout. The clear tell for ALL of his fakes is to observe the
reverse display side image. It will say in big letters: American
Meteorite Collectors Society, which of course is nonexistent,
Authenicity Guaranteed. NOT.

I followed up with eBay and inquired if they were planning to contact
all the buyers who bought the fraudulent material. Their response was:
Oh no, they would have to contact us, and within 45 days of the
purchase. Are you kidding me? How self-serving is that! 
  
I have just received the final data analysis from Dr. Korotev regarding
the display that I sent him and have reproduced his conclusions below.
If anyone is interested in seeing the hard data (1 page, primarily
regarding the REE), drop me a note, and I will forward it to you.

 
Best regards,
 
Daniel Noyes
 
...

Dear Mr. Noyes:

Here are the final INAA data on your fake martian meteorite.

There appear to be no published data for NWA 4925, but according to my
colleague Tony Irving, NWA 4925 is a depleted, permafic olivine
shergottite, of which there are several, including SaU 005 and the new
martian fall Tissint. Your rock is nothing like any of them. It's got
the geochemical signatures of a terrestrial rock - high alkalis, low Cr,
granite-like REE pattern.



~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+
Randy L. Korotev phone: (314) 935-5637
Research Professor fax: (314) 935-7361
Washington University in Saint Louis koro...@wustl.edu
Department of Earth  Planetary Sciences http://epsc.wustl.edu/



 
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Re: [meteorite-list] Final report on analysis of fake martian meteorites sold on ebay

2012-06-06 Thread Michael Gilmer
Hi Daniel and List,

Great work on exposing this fraud.  And thanks also to Dr. Korotev for
donating his time to analyze the bogus samples.  As you said, the
damage is done, and the market is contaminated with fake specimens.  I
would recommend that anyone who bought one of these displays to
contact eBay about it, and to file a PayPal dispute case to freeze the
scammer's funds.

If anyone bought one of these bogus displays, please contact me via
email and I will offer a genuine Moon or Mars display at a 40%
discount off my published price, on one condition - you take the bogus
display and smash it with a hammer and email me a photo of the
destroyed fake.  :)

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On 6/6/12, i...@moonmarsrocks.com i...@moonmarsrocks.com wrote:
 As was previously reported in this forum last month, ebay seller
 steelhorse1994 was dumping fake moon and mars rock displays on
 unsuspecting buyers through ebay listings for over a year. My
 involvement started a few months ago when I recognized the displays were
 suspect and made it my mission to uncover the fraud. I obtained one of
 these displays and solicited the assistance of Dr. Randy Korotev at
 Washington University to analyze it with neutron activation. His initial
 report to me last month indicated that it was NOT a rock from space and
 was indeed terrestrial. I immediately contacted eBay. Two days later,
 the fraud was no longer selling his fakes on eBay. There is still the
 occasional ebay seller reselling some of these fakes, an unfortunate
 repercussion of over 1000 bogus items dumped on eBay.

 Be on the lookout. The clear tell for ALL of his fakes is to observe the
 reverse display side image. It will say in big letters: American
 Meteorite Collectors Society, which of course is nonexistent,
 Authenicity Guaranteed. NOT.

 I followed up with eBay and inquired if they were planning to contact
 all the buyers who bought the fraudulent material. Their response was:
 Oh no, they would have to contact us, and within 45 days of the
 purchase. Are you kidding me? How self-serving is that!

 I have just received the final data analysis from Dr. Korotev regarding
 the display that I sent him and have reproduced his conclusions below.
 If anyone is interested in seeing the hard data (1 page, primarily
 regarding the REE), drop me a note, and I will forward it to you.


 Best regards,

 Daniel Noyes

 ...

 Dear Mr. Noyes:

 Here are the final INAA data on your fake martian meteorite.

 There appear to be no published data for NWA 4925, but according to my
 colleague Tony Irving, NWA 4925 is a depleted, permafic olivine
 shergottite, of which there are several, including SaU 005 and the new
 martian fall Tissint. Your rock is nothing like any of them. It's got
 the geochemical signatures of a terrestrial rock - high alkalis, low Cr,
 granite-like REE pattern.



 ~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+
 Randy L. Korotev phone: (314) 935-5637
 Research Professor fax: (314) 935-7361
 Washington University in Saint Louis koro...@wustl.edu
 Department of Earth  Planetary Sciences http://epsc.wustl.edu/




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Re: [meteorite-list] Final report on analysis of fake martian meteorites sold on ebay, revisited

2012-06-06 Thread info
My apologies to all for not deleting the previous digest's postings when
I replied earlier today, which clogged up the digest...thanks to Elton
for pointing it out.
 
I had trouble myself finding my posting in all that, so I am reposting
it again:
 
As was previously reported in this forum last month, ebay seller
steelhorse1994 was dumping fake moon and mars rock displays on
unsuspecting buyers through ebay listings for over a year. My
involvement started a few months ago when I recognized the displays were
suspect and made it my mission to uncover the fraud. I obtained one of
these displays and solicited the assistance of Dr. Randy Korotev at
Washington University to analyze it with neutron activation. His initial
report to me last month indicated that it was NOT a rock from space and
was indeed terrestrial. I immediately contacted eBay. Two days later,
the fraud was no longer selling his fakes on eBay. There is still the
occasional ebay seller reselling some of these fakes, an unfortunate
repercussion of over 1000 bogus items dumped on eBay. 

Be on the lookout. The clear tell for ALL of his fakes is to observe the
reverse display side image. It will say in big letters: American
Meteorite Collectors Society, which of course is nonexistent,
Authenicity Guaranteed. NOT.

I followed up with eBay and inquired if they were planning to contact
all the buyers who bought the fraudulent material. Their response was:
Oh no, they would have to contact us, and within 45 days of the
purchase. Are you kidding me? How self-serving is that! 

I have just received the final data analysis from Dr. Korotev regarding
the display that I sent him and have reproduced his conclusions below.
If anyone is interested in seeing the hard data (1 page, primarily
regarding the REE), drop me a note, and I will forward it to you.


Best regards,

Daniel Noyes

...

Dear Mr. Noyes:

Here are the final INAA data on your fake martian meteorite.

There appear to be no published data for NWA 4925, but according to my
colleague Tony Irving, NWA 4925 is a depleted, permafic olivine
shergottite, of which there are several, including SaU 005 and the new
martian fall Tissint. Your rock is nothing like any of them. It's got
the geochemical signatures of a terrestrial rock - high alkalis, low Cr,
granite-like REE pattern.



~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+
Randy L. Korotev phone: (314) 935-5637
Research Professor fax: (314) 935-7361
Washington University in Saint Louis koro...@wustl.edu
Department of Earth  Planetary Sciences http://epsc.wustl.edu/

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[meteorite-list] Final report on analysis of fake martian meteorites sold on ebay

2012-06-06 Thread Shawn Alan
Daniel and Dr Korotev

Great job with this. I have been contact some eBay members today and letting 
them know by emailing them from eBay but I can only email about 10 people a day 
on eBay. I was able to go through Steelhorse1994 list and I see that they have 
sold a lot of the fake meteorites in May, so they are still at it. I went down 
his feed back list and was able to email up to 

Fast shipping!! Thank you AAA  Buyer: 
Member id 805rockminer ( Feedback Score Of 93)   May-13-12 16:50  
NWA 4881 - LUNAR METEORITE - MOON ROCK - Achondrite - Great For The 
Collector! (#200745673078)  US $17.00  

So if someone wants to take over and start emailing members below that on their 
feed back page that would be great. Tomorrow I email where I left off unless 
people do this and let the list know where they left off. I think by doing this 
and the buyers all contacting eBay and Pay Pal will see what is happening.

Shawn Alan
IMCA 1633
eBay Store
http://www.ebay.com/sch/ph0t0phl0w/m.html?




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As was previously reported in this forum last month, ebay 
seller 
steelhorse1994 was dumping fake moon and mars rock displays on 
unsuspecting buyers through ebay listings for over a year. My 
involvement started a few months ago when I recognized the displays were 
suspect and made it my mission to uncover the fraud. I obtained one of 
these displays and solicited the assistance of Dr. Randy Korotev at 
Washington University to analyze it with neutron activation. His initial 
report to me last month indicated that it was NOT a rock from space and 
was indeed terrestrial. I immediately contacted eBay. Two days later, 
the fraud was no longer selling his fakes on eBay. There is still the 
occasional ebay seller reselling some of these fakes, an unfortunate 
repercussion of over 1000 bogus items dumped on eBay. 

Be on the 
lookout. The clear tell for ALL of his fakes is to observe the 
reverse 
display side image. It will say in big letters: American 
Meteorite 
Collectors Society, which of course is nonexistent, 
Authenicity 
Guaranteed. NOT. 

I followed up with eBay and inquired if they were 
planning to contact 
all the buyers who bought the fraudulent material. Their 
response was: 
Oh no, they would have to contact us, and within 45 days of 
the 
purchase. Are you kidding me? How self-serving is that! 

I have 
just received the final data analysis from Dr. Korotev regarding 
the display 
that I sent him and have reproduced his conclusions below. 
If anyone is 
interested in seeing the hard data (1 page, primarily 
regarding the REE), 
drop me a note, and I will forward it to you. 


Best regards, 

Daniel Noyes 

... 

Dear Mr. Noyes: 

Here are the final INAA data on your fake 
martian meteorite. 

There appear to be no published data for NWA 4925, 
but according to my 
colleague Tony Irving, NWA 4925 is a depleted, permafic 
olivine 
shergottite, of which there are several, including SaU 005 and the 
new 
martian fall Tissint. Your rock is nothing like any of them. It's got 
the geochemical signatures of a terrestrial rock - high alkalis, low Cr, 
granite-like REE pattern. 



~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+ 
Randy L. Korotev phone: (314) 935-5637 
Research Professor fax: (314) 
935-7361 
Washington University in Saint Louis korotev at 
wustl.edu 
Department of Earth  Planetary Sciences http://epsc.wustl.edu/




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Re: [meteorite-list] Final report on analysis of fake martian meteorites sold on ebay

2012-06-06 Thread Michael Gilmer
Hi Shawn and List,

Coincidentally, I just contacted another eBay seller who was selling
these bogus specimens and gave him a link to the Met-List discussion
and recent post by Daniel.

eBay seller - mountscholar

Item - http://www.ebay.com/itm/180898656787

Best regards,

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On 6/6/12, Shawn Alan photoph...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Daniel and Dr Korotev

 Great job with this. I have been contact some eBay members today and letting
 them know by emailing them from eBay but I can only email about 10 people a
 day on eBay. I was able to go through Steelhorse1994 list and I see that
 they have sold a lot of the fake meteorites in May, so they are still at it.
 I went down his feed back list and was able to email up to

 Fast shipping!! Thank you AAA  Buyer:
 Member id 805rockminer ( Feedback Score Of 93)   May-13-12 16:50
 NWA 4881 - LUNAR METEORITE - MOON ROCK - Achondrite - Great For The
 Collector! (#200745673078)  US $17.00

 So if someone wants to take over and start emailing members below that
 on their feed back page that would be great. Tomorrow I email where I left
 off unless people do this and let the list know where they left off. I think
 by doing this and the buyers all contacting eBay and Pay Pal will see what
 is happening.

 Shawn Alan
 IMCA 1633
 eBay Store
 http://www.ebay.com/sch/ph0t0phl0w/m.html?




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 ebayinfo at moonmarsrocks.com info
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 analysis of fake martian meteorites sold on ebay
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 ] [ author ]
 

 As was previously reported in this forum last month, ebay
 seller
 steelhorse1994 was dumping fake moon and mars rock displays on
 unsuspecting buyers through ebay listings for over a year. My
 involvement started a few months ago when I recognized the displays were
 suspect and made it my mission to uncover the fraud. I obtained one of
 these displays and solicited the assistance of Dr. Randy Korotev at
 Washington University to analyze it with neutron activation. His initial
 report to me last month indicated that it was NOT a rock from space and
 was indeed terrestrial. I immediately contacted eBay. Two days later,
 the fraud was no longer selling his fakes on eBay. There is still the
 occasional ebay seller reselling some of these fakes, an unfortunate
 repercussion of over 1000 bogus items dumped on eBay.

 Be on the
 lookout. The clear tell for ALL of his fakes is to observe the
 reverse
 display side image. It will say in big letters: American
 Meteorite
 Collectors Society, which of course is nonexistent,
 Authenicity
 Guaranteed. NOT.

 I followed up with eBay and inquired if they were
 planning to contact
 all the buyers who bought the fraudulent material. Their
 response was:
 Oh no, they would have to contact us, and within 45 days of
 the
 purchase. Are you kidding me? How self-serving is that!

 I have
 just received the final data analysis from Dr. Korotev regarding
 the display
 that I sent him and have reproduced his conclusions below.
 If anyone is
 interested in seeing the hard data (1 page, primarily
 regarding the REE),
 drop me a note, and I will forward it to you.


 Best regards,

 Daniel Noyes

 ...

 Dear Mr. Noyes:

 Here are the final INAA data on your fake
 martian meteorite.

 There appear to be no published data for NWA 4925,
 but according to my
 colleague Tony Irving, NWA 4925 is a depleted, permafic
 olivine
 shergottite, of which there are several, including SaU 005 and the
 new
 martian fall Tissint. Your rock is nothing like any of them. It's got
 the geochemical signatures of a terrestrial rock - high alkalis, low Cr,
 granite-like REE pattern.



 ~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+
 Randy L. Korotev phone: (314) 935-5637
 Research Professor fax: (314)
 935-7361
 Washington University in Saint Louis korotev at
 wustl.edu
 Department of Earth  Planetary Sciences http://epsc.wustl.edu/




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Re: [meteorite-list] Final report on analysis of fake martian meteorites sold on ebay

2012-06-06 Thread jason utas
Hello Daniel,
Really great work.  We need more people like you keeping an eye on
this business.  Thanks for all of the time and effort you've put into
improving our community.
Regards,
Jason

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 Date: Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:00 AM
 Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Final report on analysis of fake martian
 meteorites sold on ebay
 To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com


 As was previously reported in this forum last month, ebay seller
 steelhorse1994 was dumping fake moon and mars rock displays on
 unsuspecting buyers through ebay listings for over a year. My
 involvement started a few months ago when I recognized the displays were
 suspect and made it my mission to uncover the fraud. I obtained one of
 these displays and solicited the assistance of Dr. Randy Korotev at
 Washington University to analyze it with neutron activation. His initial
 report to me last month indicated that it was NOT a rock from space and
 was indeed terrestrial. I immediately contacted eBay. Two days later,
 the fraud was no longer selling his fakes on eBay. There is still the
 occasional ebay seller reselling some of these fakes, an unfortunate
 repercussion of over 1000 bogus items dumped on eBay.

 Be on the lookout. The clear tell for ALL of his fakes is to observe the
 reverse display side image. It will say in big letters: American
 Meteorite Collectors Society, which of course is nonexistent,
 Authenicity Guaranteed. NOT.

 I followed up with eBay and inquired if they were planning to contact
 all the buyers who bought the fraudulent material. Their response was:
 Oh no, they would have to contact us, and within 45 days of the
 purchase. Are you kidding me? How self-serving is that!

 I have just received the final data analysis from Dr. Korotev regarding
 the display that I sent him and have reproduced his conclusions below.
 If anyone is interested in seeing the hard data (1 page, primarily
 regarding the REE), drop me a note, and I will forward it to you.


 Best regards,

 Daniel Noyes

 ...

 Dear Mr. Noyes:

 Here are the final INAA data on your fake martian meteorite.

 There appear to be no published data for NWA 4925, but according to my
 colleague Tony Irving, NWA 4925 is a depleted, permafic olivine
 shergottite, of which there are several, including SaU 005 and the new
 martian fall Tissint. Your rock is nothing like any of them. It's got
 the geochemical signatures of a terrestrial rock - high alkalis, low Cr,
 granite-like REE pattern.



 ~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+
 Randy L. Korotev phone: (314) 935-5637
 Research Professor fax: (314) 935-7361
 Washington University in Saint Louis koro...@wustl.edu
 Department of Earth  Planetary Sciences http://epsc.wustl.edu/




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 1. We are Stardust! (valpar...@aol.com)
 2. Re: International Meteorite Market (Michael Gilmer)
 3. Transit of Venus to take place in less then an hour!
 (Don Merchant)
 4. Re: Transit of Venus to take place in less then an hour!
 (Graham Ensor)
 5. Re: Transit of Venus to take place in less then anhour!
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 6. 54 Auctions Ending In A Few Hours! (Adam Hupe)
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