Sometimes you see something on the web that just makes you do a double take. I just had one of those moments. I saw a post saying:
Association for Archaeology and Anthropology – selling/buying genuine artefacts. Interested in genuine Byzantine jewellery? Ever collected arrowheads from different cultures?
So I clicked on the linked and you would not believe it (sarcasm). The Southern Urals State University Students Association for the Advancement of Archaeological and Anthropological Studies in Russia was selling “genuine” artifacts to help raise money. Guess what? The association is actually based out of Washington State in the US so you can get local shipping rates. How nice of the this made up Russian school group to think of its buyers when selling “real” artifacts. Interesting that they have a website for selling but not for the actual association (again sarcasm).
They even have a twitter account.
Sometimes you see scams that are so poorly put together that you wonder how they can possibly work? One theory are scams are so bad on purpose so that they only get the most gullible people so they do not have to waste their time with people who would not fall for it. Maybe that is what they are trying to do?
You can look at the photos and tell that the items are fake. http://www.susu-saaa.org/aboutus.php
Really ancient Egyptians used stainless steel earing hooks?
The Twitter account seems to be abandoned so maybe they realized it was a waste of time and have given up. We can only hope.
Doug's Archaeology 
Allan
March 27, 2013
This seller used to be on eBay as southern_urals_state_saaa
and before that as southern_urals_saaa and before that, s_urals_state_university and way back in 1999 he was selling as timelesstreasure4u and thegiftoftime
This was run by one ‘Professor Stube’ who claimed to be in his 90’s ( though with time does not appear to have got any older) and have poor sight (this was his excuse for some of the rubbish he used to peddle) some of it was OK, but most was rubbish and still is of course.
He used to mention a visits to Russia and he also talked about moving house to Washington state, where apparently this set up ships from. He also used to mention his son and daughter.
timelesstreasure4u was banned from eBay for the worst case of shilling I have ever seen. He reappeared in the other guises later.
He re-registered under a daughter’s name and traded through that ID for a while
Someone calling himself Chuck Ordega once emailed to say that he was an experienced archaeologist and that people who criticised did not know what they were was talking about
Ortega may be the Prof, or he may be the son, or the Prof and the son may be one and the same…
It’s all a great big scam which has been going on for at least 14 years!
Brad
October 31, 2013
Not a single “Egyptian” artefact on that website is genuinely ancient!
Eddie
November 17, 2015
Is this crook still operating his scams???
Eddie
Addy Leigh
August 9, 2016
The partners is this very verty long standing fraud are Charles E Ortego known as “Chuck” Ortego, his partner, Anna S. Ponomareva and one Carl Stube who has sometimes called himself “Professor” Stube, all of the same address, 3051 Hales Passage Dr, Lummi Island, WA.