counterfeits
Why Counterfeits Cost More Than You Think
If consumers knew the dark side, they might think again about buying those cheap knockoffs.
This Counterfeit iPhone Is Riddled With Backdoors and Malware
Fake devices look real but are rife with unpatched operated systems, outdated kernels, and a universe of dodgy backdoors and malware, researchers have found.
How Criminals Ran a Fake U.S. Embassy in Ghana – For a Decade
U.S. officials declined to say how many people entered the country on these fake documents.
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We Asked an Expert How to Spot the Most Popular Counterfeit Items in the UK
For a start: fake cigarettes might have chunks of plastic in them, and counterfeit airbags are more likely to explode and kill you than the car crash itself.
Province-Wide Warning About Bootleg Fentanyl in Recreational Drugs Issued in Ontario
With the fentanyl being disguised as prescription pills and entering the MDMA, cocaine, and meth supplies in the province, doing drugs is becoming more dangerous.
Everything We Know About the Fentanyl Pills That May Have Killed Prince
Bootleg fentanyl from China has flooded the illicit opioid market in both the US and Canada.
How to Print $250 Million in Fake Money and (Mostly) Get Away With It
Over Goldschlager, the world's self-dubbed best counterfeiter tells us how he got caught, but is still a free man.
'Hamilton' Could Ruin Plans to Get a Woman on the $10 Bill
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew was really into the idea of putting a woman on money, but then he saw Lin Miranda-Manuel's musical.
Canadian Students Made This Neat Nanotech Ink to Thwart Counterfeiters
A smartphone camera's flash and some fancy processing algorithms are all that's needed to verify the authenticity of whatever the ink has been applied to.
An Interview with a Serbian Smuggler Who Sells Chinese Counterfeit Luxury Clothing
Miki's traveled to Beijing 88 times in the last 15 years to procure knockoff goods for his "boutique."
Fake Malaria Pills Could Cause an Epidemic
Fake antimalarial pills sold on the black market have helped create a drug resistant malaria strain. We look at who's selling them and the problems they're causing.