Spot Counterfeits: How to Identify Fakes and Combat Counterfeit Crime

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Counterfeiting and Men's Clothing

There is a huge market in counterfeit designer fashions for women, but it’s not restricted to the female gender. Designer clothing for men is regularly bei...

Counterfeit Outdoor Jackets - is it Fake or Authentic?

Since outdoor jackets, such as those used for hiking, have become more like fashion clothing, there have been growing numbers of fakes of the big names, such...

Counterfeit Auto Accessories

It's not uncommon to come across counterfeit auto parts, although they're thankfully rare in Britain. But who'd have thought there could be a good trade in f...

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 Brit...

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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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