Counterfeit Products In The News:
Consumers Warned on Amazon and eBay Counterfeit Products
Mar 13, 2014 - By Press Release
Scam artists recognize consumers are vulnerable and buyers place their confidence in the global giants to protect their interests, but that perception is not well founded.
Consumers Warned on Amazon and eBay Counterfeit Products
Mar 13, 2014 - By TCR Press Release
Counterfeit products on Amazon and eBay are a challenge for consumers.
Massive fake health and beauty supplies ring busted
Mar 12, 2014 - By Adrienne Zulueta, CNN
A pair of New York brothers are charged with running a multimillion-dollar ring that peddled fake products distributed up and down the East Coast including ChapStick, Johnson's Baby Oil, Vaseline and Always sanitary pads.
Health, Beauty Product Counterfeiting Op Shuttered
Mar 11, 2014 - By The North County Gazette
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice has announced the takedown of a large-scale, sophisticated counterfeiting operation in which more than $2 million worth of health and beauty products.
Notorious Markets List Focuses Fight Against Global Counterfeiting
Feb 26, 2014 - By United States Trade Representative
The markets we have identified unfairly take from American workers, diminishing the value and saleability of their work and threatening their jobs.
Amazon: faulty products and dangerous knockoffs
Feb 21, 2014 - By Rob Price
There's a scandal brewing for Amazon.The online retail behemoth has been accused of failing to properly monitor what it's selling—and putting its customers' lives at risk in the process.
The Secret of Taobao's Success
Feb 18, 2014 - By Christina Larson
Amazon has earned the moniker "the everything store" in the U.S., but in China Alibaba's e-commerce sites, especially Taobao.com, dominate, with Amazon (AMZN) almost nowhere to be seen.
Medicines Made in India Set Off Safety Worries
Feb 15, 2014 - By Gardiner Harris
India, the second-largest exporter of over-the-counter and prescription drugs to the United States, is coming under increased scrutiny by American regulators for safety lapses, falsified drug test results and selling fake medicines.
Website Helps Consumers Identify Counterfeit Products
Feb 12, 2014 - By TCR Press Release
Savvy consumers know to avoid online pharmacies, cheap handbags and fake watches, but many counterfeit products are hard to detect.
That Fake iPhone is Probably Full of Lead
Feb 06, 2014 - By Rachel Feltman
Many legitimate electronic devices contain some trace amounts of lead, cadmium and mercury, but counterfeit phones have "alarmingly high proportions of hazardous substances."