Warning: There are a lot of sellers of Chinese antiques, fossils, and coins (coins may be Chinese or antique US coins) on .

If the seller is in China, the item is almost guaranteed to be fake. Basically all Chinese amber sold on is fake; either plastic, or real amber (or copal) melted down in solvents and then cast in a mold around insects. They may even claim it is “baltic amber”. Scorpions in amber are very rare, yet they’re common on . From china. They’re all fake.

Fake Scorpions in Amber