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The Metropolitan Police has now begun to issue notices to car boot sale organisers, warning they could face criminal liability if they knowingly facilitate or ignore the sale of stolen, counterfeit and illicit goods.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said it uncovered a bulk shipment of counterfeit Adidas, Nike and other branded streetwear at a port of entry in early August.

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

Enright says counterfeit devices are a bigger problem outside of the U.S., and that the scheme is typically to make a quick buck off the initial sale, not to hack the buyer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Their voices wheedled and they smiled in counterfeit.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

The average price of an adult replica Premier League shirt has risen by 50.7% over the past decade, helping fuel demand for counterfeits sold for as little as £12.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Risks of buying secondhand devices include outdated software, nongenuine replacement parts, activation locks, counterfeits and malware.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

DTN has said it believes the inflaters identified are counterfeits of its own product.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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

Of none perhaps are there so many shams and counterfeits abroad.

From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by John Charles Ryle

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 victim’s sister remembers how skillfully Martinez counterfeited compassion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025

Nine Italian nationals have been arrested and charged with trading in counterfeited goods.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024

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

The Bank the move was primarily to stop counterfeiting so all images need to be replaced on banknotes over time.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

“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

But that rarely happened; the fine for counterfeiting would be enormous: two and a half times the full market value of the genuine animal.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick