Fakes Target Top Brands

CDs and DVDs often rely on holograms, but can customers tell the fake holograms from the genuine article? For a counterfeiter, success is having every non-complicit person handling the product downstream to accept their fakes as legitimate products.

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  A genuine HP cartridge. Refills will work sometimes, but may damage a...
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  The fake products can be simple knock-offs, relabelled sister products, a mix...
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  Unscrupulous vendors have been known to refill luxury bottles with cheaper...
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  If the product manufacturer uses undifferentiated bottles and boxes, and...
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  CDs and DVDs often rely on holograms, but can customers tell the fake...
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  Counterfeiting deterrents should allow data to be tracked throughout the...

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