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The Super Bowl of Counterfeiting: Scammers Run Their Own Play Fakes for the Big Game
4:50PM 2/03/2012
The quantity of counterfeit goods entering the U.S. is increasing, and it gets worse around an event like the Super Bowl. Federal agents recently seized more than $6 million of counterfeits and shut down more than 300 illegal websites. But consumers are at risk for more than just getting a shoddy NFL jersey.
Don't Get Scammed: Free Fraud Hotline Aims to Aid, Educate
7:00AM 11/08/2011
This is International Fraud Awareness Week, when various companies and nonprofit organizations work to educate people about how to avoid becoming victims of financial fraud. And we need the help: Last year, American consumers lost more than $1.7 billion to financial scams.
Jason Statham made his fortune as a top movie action hero several head-butts ago: His pictures have made well over $1 billion. But the British actor keenly remembers when being a well-paid tough guy meant selling jewelry and perfume out of a briefcase on the street.
Warnings Issued Over Counterfeit College Football Bowl Tickets
10:30AM 12/20/2010
It's college football bowl season and the formula's ripe once again for scammers to swoop in and take advantage of amped-up fans in search of hard-to-find tickets.
Warnings have already been issued about counterfeit tickets for the Rose Bowl, Sun Bowl and Fiesta Bowl. A few weeks ago, concern...
Online Buyer Beware: E-Commerce Fraud Is Getting More Sophisticated
9:55AM 11/30/2010
As more Americans shop online for the holidays, they're falling prey to increasingly sophisticated scams. In response, on Cyber Monday, the Justice Department busted 82 sites for allegedly selling counterfeit and pirated goods, but more crooks are out there.
UGG, Coach and the Top 5 most counterfeited items sold online
11:25AM 9/27/2010
With Black Friday 2010 rapidly approaching and consumers in search of holiday shopping deals, beware the temptation of the super low price on products that don't really get sold on the cheap. Would you buy a $20 Rolex on a street corner and really believe it's a Rolex?
It's not always that...
Hey, can you break these really authentic looking $1 million bills?
A woman in the United Arab Emirates fell for a scam in which a man convinced her to try to get change at the UAE central bank for two souvenir one million dollar notes he convinced her were real. The man has been arrested; it's...
Batteries in refurbished BlackBerrys recalled due to fire hazard
12:45PM 8/11/2010
The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission is recalling 470,000 BlackBerry batteries that were installed in refurbished devices because they are counterfeits and could catch fire.
The batteries -- CPSC doesn't know where they were manufactured -- were distributed from March 2004 through October...
Counterfeit circuit breakers in homes across U.S.
3:45PM 8/03/2010
Thousands of homes across the U.S. are at risk of fire after unknowingly having counterfeit circuit breakers installed.
Miami Breaker issued a recall this week for 43,600 circuit breakers after Square D, a division of Schneider Electric, determined they were fakes, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety...
His stringy hair still needs a wash, but it's a bigger, better, safer Benjamin Franklin on the refurbished $100 bill introduced today. The bill goes into circulation in February, tricked out with new security measures that might have pleased the tinkerer in Franklin, a Founding Father who invented...
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