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The counterfeit labels, usually sold at $2 each, allegedly allowed customers to ship packages at rates far below legitimate prices, resulting in substantial lost revenue and shipping costs to the Postal Service.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

While Poland remains Europe's leading country for counterfeit cigarette production, Belgium has become a key base for traffickers looking to offload their low-cost products in markets such as Britain and France.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

The department had initially intercepted and inspected the shipment at the port based on a tip received by its counterfeit and piracy enforcement team, the department said in the release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Trading-card grading volume is growing year over year, hitting a record high this April, and so is counterfeit activity.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026

The Nuer tribe in the Sudan went so far as to smear stuffed animals with their mother’s urine, to give the counterfeit calves a familiar, live scent.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

We followed the supply chain behind official shirts after fans told us they were frustrated by rising prices, with many turning to cheaper counterfeits instead.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

But glassmakers on the island face exorbitant energy costs, a shrinking pool of apprentices and competition from counterfeits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

The experts reassured me that preinstalled malware is rare, but there are other, more common dangers: activation-locked devices, shoddy replacement parts, outdated models—or even counterfeits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

The judge accepted that Crowley had inherited the statues from his grandfather and did not at any point believe that they were counterfeits.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

The recumbent figures upon the ground were dummies of grass and cloth; the stacked guns were rough wooden counterfeits.

From Caybigan by James Hopper

The Chinese company, DTN Airbag, has said it doesn’t do business with customers in the U.S. and that it believes the company’s parts have been counterfeited.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

The 48-year-old author even took to Instagram this week to warn her fans that counterfeited copies, external of The Polygamist were being sold in a bookshop in Nairobi.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

The victim’s sister remembers how skillfully Martinez counterfeited compassion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025

But Leas sees these documents as mostly marketing, and these reports can be counterfeited.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2024

Each flower was made of glass or crystal, spun or carved, he could not tell: they counterfeited life perfectly.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

“It looks like the company’s seemingly blatant attempts at counterfeiting patented weight-loss drugs via compounding finally went too far,” said On the Street Substack author Herb Greenberg.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 9, 2026

The tech also assigns a counterfeiting risk score based on the company’s years of collecting information on real and fake items.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

Both men were charged with "counterfeiting medicines or medical products", and the 26-year-old also faces money-laundering charges.

From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025

When you see the counterfeiting in “To Live and Die L.A.,” people were fascinated by that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025

As part of the Department of the Treasury, its purpose was to fight counterfeiting.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow