Weedly, perhaps you need to read the most updated anti Mormon Lit. This was a hoax and the perpetrator who also murdered to get gain has been in prison for a couple decades.
Mormons accusing the salamander letter to be a hoax is totally ironic since all of Mormonism is just that.
The seer stone. The toad. The golden plates—engraved by a pre-Columbian prophet-warrior named Mormon and his son Moroni. (who after death protected the buried plates as the angel Moroni) in about the year 400 CE. Reformed Egyptian. How the plates got to Palmira NY. How metal plates contained all the text in the book of mormon. The Kinderhook plates. The ancient inhabitants of the Americas engraved records on metal platesl however no such plates have ever been found except by Mormons. How strange!
The visions showing Joseph Smith the exact location of these plates. The second coming in Missouri. The Mormon massacre of settlers. Multiple wives. etc etc.
And Mormons sure know a hoax when you see one?
He was able to perpetuate the hoax on a supposed "prophet" of God.
Is your God so weak?