When I first came to the forum, I read every early post about certain types of beads and necklaces and, for months after finding the forum, I labored under the misunderstanding that all of examples pictured were genuine; this was because no one said otherwise. When I raised the same topic months or years later with questions of my own, it took a bit of pressing for someone to come forward and say the necklaces were fakes and explain why. I'm writing this to say that it is indeed tricky all around.