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Counterfeit Cigarettes On The Market
It’s an item that’s been in the news a number of times over the last few years – the trade in fake cigarettes. It’s a huge business, not only in Britain, but all...
eBay And Counterfeits
As the biggest and best-known of the online auction sites, eBay is rife with counterfeits in all manner of things, but especially clothing and electronics. Designer...
Fake Cigars Are Big Business
Most people might not consider fake cigars to be a problem. But when the cost of real Cuban cigars is high, and as the popularity of cigar smoking has risen, so have...
How Big A Business Is Counterfeiting?
Make no mistake about it, counterfeiting is big. Not just big, but vast, accounting for somewhere between five and seven per cent of the world's...
How Counterfeits Devalue the Real Thing
There are two different camps on whether counterfeit items devalue truly the real thing. Listen to the manufacturers, and they have no doubt...
How Interpol Fights Counterfeiters
Counterfeiting is a global crime, with faked goods from one country or area ending up in other countries and regions. So it’s perfectly natural that Interpol, the...
How Technology Can Beat Counterfeiting
Advances in technology and its application are proving invaluable in the global fight against counterfeiting. It can work very well in certain...
How to Stop Currency Counterfeiting
Counterfeit currency is a very big business indeed. During 2009 the Bank of England took 566,000 fake notes out of circulation, worth a total of £11.1 million....
Penalties Facing the Counterfeit Criminal
Counterfeiting is a crime, but all too often we don’t think of it in the same way as, say, bank robbery or even embezzlement. After all, who’s...
The Market for Fake Documentation
There’s a thriving market for all kinds of fake documentation these days. Whilst much of it covers the kind of official documents that can let someone live and work...
The Problems Posed by Fake Ticket Sellers
More and more in recent years, people have been plagued by the problem of counterfeit tickets. These are usually concert tickets, but sports...
What the Office of Fair Trading Can Do
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is a government agency that acts and both protector and advocate for the consumer. It helps shape policy, gives...
What's Being Done About Counterfeiting?
We know counterfeiting is a major problem, one with a huge impact on global trade, affecting the lives of thousands directly and millions more...
Where You Might Find Counterfeit Goods
Counterfeit goods are insidious. They're everywhere. Some are quite obvious, while others are so good it needs close inspection to tell the real...
Why Is Stamping Out Counterfeiting Important?
Counterfeiting is a business worth billions of pounds every year. What you see at the market or offered online is simply the tip of the iceberg....
