The phony coupons, which offer consumers a free bag of Doritos tortilla chips without buying anything, first showed up on Web sites in 2009, but were quickly removed after Frito-Lay notified site owners, according to company spokeswoman Aurora Gonzalez. Similar coupons have surfaced in the last two months and have spread through e-mail.
Now the coupons [...]
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NEWS: Fake Internet Coupons May Cost Frito-Lay Millions
June 22nd, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Counterfeiting · Coupon Fraud · Frito-Lay
News: Fake Food Coupons Spread in Haiti
February 11th, 2010 No Comments
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The United Nations said Monday that counterfeiters had begun printing fake tickets to gain access to free rice distributions, complicating giveaways that are meant for the hungriest Haitians.
David Orr, a spokesman for the World Food Program, said counterfeiters, active in Haiti even during ordinary times, had become more sophisticated since relief authorities [...]
Tags: Counterfeiting · Coupon Fraud · Haiti
News: Coupon Sites Surge, So Does Fraud
July 7th, 2009 No Comments
US Internet users have responded to the economic downturn by using the Web to save money. Coupons have played a large role.
According to the “State of the US Online Retail Economy in Q1 2009” study, from comScore, online coupon services have enjoyed a huge surge in popularity during the recession. Since March 2008 year-over-year growth [...]
Tags: CIC · comScore · Coupon Fraud
News: IOS Plant Managers Plead Guilty in $250 Million+ Coupon Fraud Case
April 29th, 2009 No Comments
The Coupon Information Corporation (CIC) applauds the fine work of Stephen Ingraham and Rick Frohling of the US Attorney’s office in Milwaukee, FBI Special Agent Steve Vitale, and U.S. Postal Inspector Jim Murphy, which led to today’s Guilty Pleas by former IOS Plant Managers Ovidio Enriquez and David J. Howard for their roles in an [...]
Tags: CIC · Counterfeiting · Coupon Fraud
