Counterfeit and Forgery

Instagram has allowed fraudsters to use its social media platform to promote and sell counterfeit money and fake passports and ID documents, an investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has found.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/15/instagram-allowing-fraudsters-use-site-try-sell-counterfeit/

Around 1,600 fake items were found by Border Force on just two occasions at Edinburgh Airport.

A Wolverhampton shop where trading standards officers seized counterfeit cigarettes is bidding to reopen again.

In celebration of World IP Day, today (29 April 2019) the City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has announced its latest operation that assists victims of counterfeit websites in obtaining a refund.

http://news.cityoflondon.police.uk/r/1223/pipcu_announces_innovative_operation_to_protect_v

Our view of fraudulent identity documents in 2018 – Trust ID

The City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) raided premises in Manchester on Thursday 14 March, with 277,000 pairs of shoes being found in one warehouse alone.

http://news.cityoflondon.police.uk/r/1211/police_action_sees_two_charged_and_3_000_pairs_of

€5 million worth of Dove, Head & Shoulders and Pantene was likely on its way to Europe from China via Latin America, says OLAF.

A property solicitor who forged a Land Registry document as part of a dispute with a business partner has been jailed along with her husband.

Although counterfeiting is not new, the sale of ‘fake’ goods is increasing, which is unsurprising given the digital age in which we live in, whereby image is everything. With a growing desire for high-end goods at a fraction of the price, from clothing to electrical goods and everything in between, knowing what is real and what is fake is becoming much harder to differentiate.

https://dealersupport.co.uk/a-quarter-of-brits-purchased-counterfeit-goods-in-2018/

If you follow our blog, you’ll know that at TrustID, we’re really keen on gathering and analysing data around document checks, including trends across different industries and fraudulent document types. With another year of data captured, in this blog, we summarise our annual findings for 2018 and compare them with trends from 2017.

https://www.trustid.co.uk/blog/our-view-of-fraudulent-identity-documents-in-2018/