VERY suspicious Classified ad about GOLIATHUS.

[thanos]

I just noticed a Classified ad, posted today, by someone 'giovinco manchini' ,about selling Goliathus beetles.

Here is the description:

''I have for sell Goliathus goliatus quadrimaculatus - the rarest full white form. Also other Goliathus goliatus forms. Many specimens, all fresh collected and selected quality. Many A1+ and some passing 100mm.
If you intersted please send me email ''

And here the url of the ad:

classifieds.insectnet.com/hsx/classifieds.hsx?session_key=&search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=584&query=retrieval

BOTH this description and the PHOTO of this add, I think that are STOLEN from the well-known and honest dealer/collector (and friend of me) Wojciech (wojturo) from Poland. I remember an ad of Wojciech about Goliathus some weeks ago,and he had this photo and this description,as I remember (all who know Wojciech,can see that this is a typical photo of his specimens) . SO,this African(? -Bertoua is in Cameroon) with name 'giovinco manchini' ,after removing the copyright from the photo,posted Wojciech's specimen photo,and the same description(and the same title 'all types of Goliathus' ,-this was the title of one of wojturo's ads,if remember well).. BE ALL VERY CAREFULL .

Thanos

[thanos]

Here, I found some of the original ads of Wojciech :

webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:v1f8C5syuk0J:www.insectnet.com/cgi/newclassifieds/newclassifieds.cgi%3Fsession_key%3D%26search_and_display_db_button%3Don%26db_id%3D44569%26query%3Dretrieval+all+types+of+Goliathus+insectnet+wojciech+duda&cd=1&hl=el&ct=clnk&gl=gr


webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cf9Fi_sMnUgJ:www.insectnet.com/cgi/newclassifieds/newclassifieds.cgi%3Fsession_key%3D%26search_and_display_db_button%3Don%26db_id%3D44567%26query%3Dretrieval+all+types+of+Goliathus+insectnet+wojciech+duda&cd=2&hl=el&ct=clnk&gl=gr


YOU CAN SEE THE SIMILARITY !! (I see now that there is no copyright sign on his photos, so that African - ? - stole them directly).

TO SEE THE ADS, copy and paste the entire urls above to your browser,and do not click only on the first clickable part of them (I don't know why the urls appear like this).

Thanos

[thanos]

Hmm, below is the exact ad of Wojciech,and his exact male specimen of G.goliathus f.conspersus ,the photo of which the African(?) stole and put to his ad.

webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6RKZMzEwPGwJ:www.insectnet.com/cgi/newclassifieds/newclassifieds.cgi%3Fsession_key%3D%26search_and_display_db_button%3Don%26db_id%3D44566%26query%3Dretrieval+all+types+of+Goliatus+classified+ad+wojturo&cd=1&hl=el&ct=clnk&gl=gr


(Note that in the African's ad,although is pictured the form conspersus -stolen by wojturo- ,in the description is mentioned the form quadrimaculatus . While in wojturo's original ads, the pictured form is the one mentioned in the description,as he knows what he sells,and as his specimens are real and do exist).