ICE seizes 1,635 counterfeit items from vendors

This is why we all pay so much more for the real thing Counterfeit knock offs! Thank ICE for shutting down these kiosks. We see them all over the malls from handbags to sunglasses. Everytime vendors sale knockoff...

America's Worst Counterfeiter Creates Fake $100 Bills With Picture of Abe Lin...

P. Diddy once said that "It's All About the Benjamins", but for one Memphis man it's all about the Lincolns. James Rhyne tried to pay for a meal using a counterfeit $100 bill featuring a portrait of Abraham...

RIAA Suggestions for content of ACTA

the internet police are coming to your ip soon..."RIAA Suggestions for content of ACTA Enforcement - ACTA Thursday, 26 June 2008  These are the...

update "copy - products"-Counterfeits Italian-French border market closed

The Italian market of Ventimiglia , the ancient "super market for counterfeit gucci bags, Leblanc pens", etc. is closed down now for such copy products. This is to know for a visit in...

Buyers of bogus degrees named [incl. people in govt., military, education]

"Hundreds of people working in the military, government and education are on a list of almost 10,000 people who spent $7.3 million buying phony and counterfeit high school and college degrees from a Spokane diploma mill. The complete list of buyers, which the U.S. Department...

Countering the Plague of Counterfeit Drugs

When you buy some pills to get well, you don't expect them to make you worse - or even dead. But the global illegal drug trade has now moved into selling counterfeit pharmaceuticals, killing and harming many. ...

EBay Wins Lengthy Trademark Battle Against Tiffany

Previous article written about eBay paying $61 million to Fashion Companies over sales of fake Good can be read here.With the recent courtroom defeat of eBay, there is finally a reason for them to celebrate as...

EBay wins trademark battle against Tiffany

Who should be the ones responsible for preventing trademark infringement? Tiffany's or Ebay. Tiffiany's is not the only one who has sued Ebay for negligence to prevent the sale of counterfeit goods. 2 weeks ago,...

Fashion pirates find gold in stylish fakes

To good to be true... only for people who want to look "haute couture" " When stylish, metropolitan women stroll along with a Louis Vuitton Pleaty bag, they exude an air of high class, impeccable taste and...

Counterfeit CDs and DVDs seized

I often wonder what is meant by a claim such as "about €250,000 worth of counterfeit CDs and DVDs", surely a market trader would not have stock worth Euro 250,000. I assume that they mean that the items in question, if they were genuine, might have been valued at €...

EBay Told to Pay $61 Million to Fashion Company Over Sales of Fake Goods

I'm not sure how I feel about this. While I agree with eBay that "cutting out the middleman" can make products more appealing to users, in the long run if fraud is left unchecked it may also drive away buyers. ...

Police catch money counterfeiters

The police should put the counterfeit case into account..." Police arrested a Cameroon national who allegedly counterfeited money in Central Jakarta on Monday. Eric Kuate, 40, who had been staying in...

Fake erectile dysfunction drugs flooding Vancouver

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly disturbing when once again, looking for a cheap alternative in getting a hard-on instead of going to a doctor first for other medical causes, could and will...

Relief Money Used for Nike Runners

Can you believe this? Staff at a branch of ICBC, the biggest bank in China, used relief fund to buy themselves 56 pairs of Nike runners. Misappropriation of funds had always been a concern, but you would have...

Largest counterfeit bust in 20 years

A pair of 20-somethings have been charged in a counterfeit scheme worth more than $4 million (in fake Canadian twenties)."Whoever says "crime doesn't pay" has never tried making bank notes.But Police say that's just what two Toronto area suspects did.  Two people were...

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