Spot Counterfeits: How to Identify Fakes and Combat Counterfeit Crime

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Fake Designer Underwear

Anyone who's ever looked around market stalls will have noticed that there always seem to be a lot of Calvin Klein boxers and briefs on sale at very cheap pr...

The Hitler Diaries

In 1983 a document emerged that astounded people, as the German magazine Stern proclaimed it had obtained diaries written by the late Nazi leader Adolf Hitle...

The Bolton Forgers

Crime goes on everywhere, even behind the most respectable and unlikely facades. But in a garden shed in a council house in Bromley Cross in Bolton, one of t...

Catch Me If You Can: Frank Abagnale

Counterfeits can come in all shapes and forms. In the case of Frank Abagnale, virtually all his life has been counterfeit. He was the person on whom the movi...

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How the Software Industry is Fighting Counterfeits

As anyone who purchases it knows, software can be very expensive. If you need to buy an operating system for your computer, for instance, expect to pay over...

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 advice and w...

The Most Counterfeited Brand

It’s no surprise that the most counterfeited brand in the world belongs to one of the major designers. It’s perhaps a little more astonishing to learn th...

Fake Weddings Cakes

The whole intent of a counterfeit is to fool people. Most of the time it’s done for monetary gain, but perhaps the sweetest counterfeit – in every sense...

Fake Apple Items

In February 2011, counterfeit Apple items estimated to be worth $10 million (about £7 million) were seized from a warehouse in Los Angeles. Many of the prod...

The Ultimate Price for Fake Money

These days we expect those caught counterfeiting, even currency forgers, to receive jail sentences of no more than a few years. But it wasn’t always that w...

Anatasios Arnaouti and the Counterfeit Money

How could a man who had recently been released from jail and was supposedly unemployed afford a house worth £250,000 and drive a £70,000 Mercedes? That was...

Pirating E-books

The rise in the popularity of e-book readers has highlighted a new phenomenon – e-book piracy. It’s no different from the piracy of music, movies or soft...

Which Counterfeits Hit the Market Before the Real Thing?

Some counterfeit items are bigger business than others. Where there’s a great deal of anticipation for a product it can even happen that the fakes are out...

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,...

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