Counterfeit and Forgery

Leicestershire County Council’s trading standards team has been taking part in a two-month long exercise

https://www.burtonmail.co.uk/news/burton-news/counterfeit-kits-east-midlands-airport-1680426

PayPal said it had frozen the payment, but demanded proof from Trading Standards or Rolex that the watch was fake. I supplied both, but got no refund.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-5877477/TONY-HETHERINGTON-Time-money-9-000-Rolex-purchased-online-counterfeit.html

Counterfeiters can use photos of certificates to copy designs such as logos, crests, signatories and even holograms to make bogus certificates.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5828261/Students-warned-not-post-selfies-certificates-stop-fraudsters-making-fakes.html

18 million buy potentially dangerous counterfeit goods online

https://www.which.co.uk/news/2018/06/are-you-unwittingly-buying-fake-goods-from-amazon-and-ebay/

West Midlands Police have recovered almost 1,800 counterfeit items worth an estimated £30,000 from an address in Witton .

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/police-discover-30000-haul-counterfeit-14735181

A man has been sentenced to 10 months imprisonment for selling illegal TV devices and for re-offending, since being prosecuted and sentenced for the same crime in October 2016.

https://www.fact-uk.org.uk/man-sentenced-to-10-months-in-illegal-sports-channel-broadcasts/

More than 124,000 illegal cigarettes and 6,000kg of tobacco was seized in Nottinghamshire last year with 44 arrests made

https://nottstv.com/more-than-2-4m-worth-of-counterfeit-tobacco-seized-in-notts-in-past-year/

A Leeds fraudster who led a tobacco smuggling gang in a conspiracy to put millions of illegal cigarettes on the streets – using the for funds a canal-side house with a five-a-side football pitch – has been jailed for seven years.

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/leeds-tobacco-fraud-ringleader-gets-seven-years-for-2-million-conspiracy-1-9161379

A record £17 million of bogus or illegal erectile dysfunction pills were seized last year at ports and postal sorting offices as organised gangs try to flood Britain with ‘fake meds’.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/05/record-number-fake-pills-male-impotence-have-seized-gangs-target/

One Midlands teenager has told of her nightmare after putting on counterfeit make up and suffering a severe allergic reaction.

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/fake-makeup-warning-allergic-reaction-1492909