A few days ago, Samsung representatives got up on stage and announced the new Galaxy Tab 8.9 and Galaxy Tab 10.1 at CTIA Wireless 2011. In the keynote, they showed some videos of what they called the "Samsung Galaxy Tab Interview Project" in which they supposedly went out and interviewed fans of the tablet to see their reaction. Well Harry McCracken of Technologizer did a little background check -- and by background check I mean a Google search -- on the three people interviewed because it seemed like they were being fed a script to read in front of a camera. Real estate CEO Joseph Kolinski and freelance travel writer Joan Hess are actually New York actors by the names of... well... Joseph Kolinski and Joan Hess. Clever disguise, Samsung. Filmmaker Karl Shefelman is actually a filmmaker in New York, but one who works for a production company that previously did work for Samsung.

Further more, in the article Harry McCracken published about this (linked to below), a commenter by the name of Phil Earnhardt closely examined the video of the event and found that in the opening when there is some fake text on a fake magazine about Joseph Kolinski, that text happens to be a Samsung Galaxy Tab review -- written by Harry McCracken himself for TIME.

I haven't even mentioned that Samsung might also be lying about the thinness of the tablet, the fact that the real estate CEO gets two different names in the video, or that Joseph Kolinski had all this time to play with the Tab 8.9 when Samsung didn't even have a working model ready for the event. Is Samsung really that dumb?

Here's the full story and video at Technologizer.