LOS ANGELES – Federal and local law enforcement agencies arrested 30 individuals over the past week and seized millions of dollars worth of designer knockoffs and pirated products, including clothing, jewelry, leather goods, movie DVDs, music CDs, even phony iPhones, in a closely coordinated crackdown targeting counterfeit goods vendors in the greater Los Angeles area.
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Entries Tagged as 'Counterfeiting'
News: Feds, local law enforcement team up to seize millions in counterfeit goods
September 2nd, 2010 No Comments
Tags: counterfeit iPhone · counterfeit jewelry · counterfeits · fake designer goods · Illegal Dvds · seized goods · US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
NEWS: Southern California Counterfeit Raids Net $12 Million in Fake Goods
September 1st, 2010 No Comments
Federal and local officials raided several locations in Los Angeles and surrounding communities during a week of sweeps that resulted in 30 arrests and uncovered everything from counterfeit iPhones to fake Ed Hardy T-shirts.
At a press conference on Aug. 31, law enforcement officers unveiled some of the 47,000 confiscated items that [...]
Tags: counterfeit iPhone · Counterfeiting · Fake Luxury
NEWS: White House calls fake pharma website meeting
August 30th, 2010 No Comments
The United States Government has organized a meeting to work out how to tackle the problem of illegitimate pharmaceutical websites.
A letter seen by US security guru Brian Krebs invites leaders of high-level internet domain name registrars and registries to the White House to talk about online crime and fraudulent pharmaceutical websites.
A White House Office of [...]
Tags: Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals · Online Brand Protection · pharmaceuticals
NEWS: Luxury leather-maker Coach sues East Side market over fake purses
August 25th, 2010 No Comments
A high-end purse manufacturer is suing vendors at a Columbus flea market for selling what the company says are knockoffs.
The civil lawsuit is part of Operation Turnlock, Coach Inc.’s nationwide effort to stop the sale of counterfeit items.
Coach is seeking millions from Eastland Flea Market, 4101 Refugee Rd.; its owner, Donald E. Dorman Enterprises, 3124 [...]
Tags: Counterfeiting · Fake Luxury · fake purses
NEWS: Sour grapes for Aussie wine makers
August 25th, 2010 No Comments
Australian wineries are the latest industry to feel the sting of Chinese counterfeiting. Some of Australia’s best known brands including Penfolds, the makers of Grange, are being knocked off by Chinese entrepreneurs and promoted as the real deal in shops and trade fairs all over China, the Age reported.
And the boutique operators [...]
Tags: anti-counterfeiting · counterfeit wine · fake wine
NEWS: Faking It: Why Wearing Designer Knockoffs May Have Hidden Psychological Costs
August 25th, 2010 No Comments
Within just a few blocks from my office, street vendors will sell me a Versace T-shirt or a silk tie from Prada, cheap. Or I could get a deal on a Rolex watch or a chic pair of Ray-Ban shades. These are not authentic brand-name products, of course. They are inexpensive replicas. [...]
Tags: anti-counterfeiting · designer handbags · Fake Luxury · knockoffs
NEWS: Saudi ports seize $50m of fake goods
August 24th, 2010 No Comments
The director general of Saudi Customs has said that more than 62 million counterfeit products worth around $50m were confiscated at ports in the Kingdom over the past year.
Saleh Al-Khelaiwi said that the Kingdom was able to prevent 260,000 counterfeit car tires from entering the Kingdom.
He admitted, however, that not all other car parts were [...]
Tags: anti-counterfeiting · Counterfeit Goods · Industrial Goods · saudi arabia
NEWS: Inside the Knockoff-Tennis-Shoe Factory
August 20th, 2010 No Comments
Ashopkeeper in Italy placed an order with a Chinese sneaker factory in Putian for 3,000 pairs of white Nike Tiempo indoor soccer shoes. It was early February, and the shopkeeper wanted the Tiempos pronto. Neither he nor Lin, the factory manager, were authorized to make Nikes. They would have no blueprints or instructions [...]
Tags: anti-counterfeit · Counterfeiting · Fake Goods · tennis shoes
NEWS: Cops bust counterfeit outfit and uncover 100,000 illicit goods worth $1 million
August 19th, 2010 No Comments
A case of watches that went missing from a Kennedy Airport cargo hold led cops today to a counterfeit-goods ring in Manhattan — and more than 100,000 bogus items including fake Gucci and Burberry perfume, officials said.
Nine people were arrested in the afternoon raid at 1177 Broadway off West 27th Street [...]
Tags: anti-counterfeiting · Counterfeiting · Fake Goods · fake perfume
COMMENTARY: Recession-Friendly Counterfeiting
August 26th, 2010 No Comments
Consumer spending continues to remain flat. The Commerce Department reported that in the second quarter of 2010, disposable personal income showed no growth. This certainly points to Americans remaining conservative with their expenditures as unemployment remains high, market volatility continues, and a poor housing market drags on. The lag in consumer spending [...]
Tags: anti-counterfeiting · Counterfeiting · economy · Europe · Fake Luxury · Luxury Goods