I'm calling hooey on this one too.
From the website whose only track record was printing the last fake, which incidentally was MUCH more believable than this - "I got a PM yesterday from a person I now consider to have inside knowledge of the project". Yeah, right.
Did he provide your last scoop as well?
Maybe it's a cunning piece of psychological propaganda designed to make Luthier hurry up with those damned answers?!