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| | Counterfeiting - Yellowworld Forums |
 | | Counterfeiters often get their goods by bribing employees in a company with a valuable brand to hand over manufacturing moulds or master discs for them to copy. | | | Few big companies are unaffected by counterfeiting somewhere in the world. | | | But counterfeiters are copying an ever widening range of products. |
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http://www.yellowworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=7279
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| | HP Labs : News : HP Helps U.S. Clamp Down on Counterfeiting |
| | Counterfeiting used to be the domain of skilled criminals with expensive engraving and printing equipment. | | | Were a user to attempt to print a banknote using the exact green in the correct density for a bill, the printer could modulate the color somewhat to produce distinct, visible bands of color. | | | Last year, counterfeiters turned out $44 million in U.S. currency -- nearly 40 percent of it using digital equipment like color copies, scanners and ink jet printers. |
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http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2003/july_sept/counterfeit.html
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| | RBA: Conference Paper-Australia's Counterfeiting Experience |
| | Initially, all counterfeits were produced on a paper substrate and were very crude. | | | In many of these counterfeits, the stuck on piece of plastic was peeling or had fallen off. | | | Despite the Bank introducing the first polymer note of the new note series in July 1992, it is worth noting that counterfeits of the polymer note series did not surface until some 4 1/2 years later, and then only in very small numbers. |
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http://www.rba.gov.au/CurrencyNotes/ConferencePapers/cu_6.8_counterfeit.html
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| | Counterfeiting Using Personal Computers |
| | As a result, today's counterfeiter is able to produce counterfeit currency using a high-quality inkjet printer that can cost as little as $300. | | | A counterfeiter that is looking to make a more deceptive note will get a higher grade paper and pay a little bit more money for it, but it is fair to say that that paper is readily available if someone is willing to pay a few more dollars. | | | The price of admission to commit the felony of counterfeiting has suddenly dropped from years of skilled apprenticeship and access to expensive professional printing equipment to anyone with the inclination, a personal computer and a color inkjet printer. |
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http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/bank/hba47580.000/hba47580_0.htm
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| | Counterfeiting: changes foreign companies can and should make |
| | Buying counterfeits of any type perpetuates the industry and sends a wrong message to PRC authorities about companies' commitment to fighting counterfeiting. | | | Employees of a company from top to bottom must appreciate that there is no "good" counterfeiting. | | | In recent years, many companies have focused their efforts on raiding factories that produce counterfeit products in China. |
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http://resources.alibaba.com/article/4115/Counterfeiting_changes_foreign_companies_can_and_should_make.htm
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| | PCWorld.com - Government Uses Color Laser Printer Technology to Track Documents |
| | According to Pagano, counterfeiting cases are brought to the Secret Service, which checks the documents, determines the brand and serial number of the printer, and contacts the company. | | | According to experts, several printer companies quietly encode the serial number and the manufacturing code of their color laser printers and color copiers on every document those machines produce. | | | However, they could also be employed to track a document back to any person or business that printed it. |
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http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118664,00.asp
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| | NAM - NAM 2005 Report on China’s Compliance With Its WTO Commitments |
| | A representative of testing and certification companies reported the Chinese counterfeiters are affixing false health and safety marks on counterfeit products, putting the health and safety of consumers at risk and degrading the reputation of the legitimate companies. | | | Over the past year, the NAM has received reports of counterfeiting by Chinese companies of automotive bearings and auto parts, instrument testing gauges, electrical machinery, consumer hygiene and health care products, pharmaceuticals, food and beverages, motorized vehicles, gauges for recreational marine craft, adhesives and cigarette lighters. | | | NAM member companies have also found counterfeit products offered by Chinese companies at trade fairs in Europe and other foreign markets. |
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http://www.nam.org/s_nam/doc1.asp?CID=170&DID=235089
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| | Money Matters: Coin and Counterfeiting Issues |
| | Both new designs come as part of an ongoing effort to keep ahead of counterfeiters who increasingly are turning to inexpensive, readily available digital scanners and printers to make their fakes. | | | We had to use color, had to use offset-type printing, which is that type of tint printing. | | | Public education and training continues to play a large role in the Secret Service's efforts to suppress the manufacturing, distribution and sale of counterfeit U.S. currency both domestically and abroad. |
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http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/bank/hba96545.000/hba96545_0.HTM
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| | Adobe Anti-Counterfeiting: Feature or Bug? |
| | Undoubtedly counterfeiters, like any other kind of hacker, are trying to find a way around the Adobe restriction. | | | PhotoShop blocked the scan and displayed a warning that counterfeiting is illegal. | | | No doubt Adobe felt some pressure to be a good corporate citizen by voluntarily cooperating with the request. |
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1440683,00.asp
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| | How to Fight Against Counterfeiting |
| | Congress was made aware of consumer status products as well as counterfeiting where the public was at risk in connection with safety measures associated with products, for example, in the aircraft industry, in pharmaceutical area and in connection with dangerous toys. | | | If the quantity is smaller that is, between 100 and 1000 phonorecords in a 181 day period, or between 7 and 65 copies of a motion picture, then the fine is not more than $25,000 or imprisonment for not more than one year or both. | | | The connotation of a counterfeit design would be one which closely corresponds to that design depicted on a product. |
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http://www.supnik.com/ctfrio.htm
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| | National Association of Manufacturers - Counterfeiting |
| | The problem is especially serious in China where a wide range of fake industrial products are manufactured in large volumes for the domestic market and sale abroad. | | | Product Counterfeiting: Grand Larceny on a Massive Scale - 3/31/2005 (HTML) | | | Testimony on "Product Counterfeiting: How Fakes Are Undermining U.S. Jobs, Innovation and Consumer Safety" - 6/15/2005 (PDF) |
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http://www.nam.org/s_nam/sec.asp?TRACKID=&SID=1&VID=1&CID=162&DID=160&RTID=0&CIDQS=&Taxonomy=False&specialSearch=False
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| | Bob O'Brien's Sanity Check - Stock Counterfeiting - A Primer |
| | We have not heard from the specific market makers and the brokers who are responsible for the selling of counterfeit stock for these current cases. | | | I have shorted stock: The idea is to borrow at say eight dollars, sell the stock, wait for the stock to fall to six (or some other lower number) buy it back, return it, and keep the difference. | | | What the video will proove to you is that counterfeit shares are being manufactured and are in the system today. |
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http://www.thesanitycheck.com/BobsSanityCheckBlog/tabid/56/EntryID/144/Default.aspx
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| | John & Kernick - IP in Africa - South Africa - Anti-Counterfeiting - General Information |
| | To combat the dealing in counterfeit goods, the Act has introduced three types of measures that would cover most instances of counterfeiting: | | | The Act introduced drastic and far reaching measures to assist brand owners in combating the sale of counterfeit goods. | | | Counterfeiting and copying of famous brands has created real dangers for the individual purchaser, manufacturer, distributor and even the national economy. |
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http://www.johnandkernick.co.za/JK_IP_Africa/South_Africa/JK_IPA_SA_AC_Gen_Info.htm
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| | BBC NEWS Technology Tackling the property pirates |
| | The many EU companies affected by counterfeiting will have some further tools to help them. | | | The directive has always been intended to tackle professional, commercial scale counterfeiting. | | | Under the proposal, companies will be able to apply for injunctions to prevent counterfeit goods being distributed. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3501964.stm
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| | GovTrack: Senate Record: STOP COUNTERFEITING IN MANUFACTURED GOODS ACT (109-s20051110-74) |
| | These counterfeit products range from children's toys to clothing to Christmas tree lights. | | | In fact, for almost every legitimate product manufactured and sold within the United States, there is a parallel counterfeit product being sold for no more than half the price. | | | More frightening are the thousands of counterfeit automobile parts, batteries, and electrical equipment that are being manufactured and placed into the stream of commerce with each passing day. |
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http://www.govtrack.us/congress/record.xpd?id=109-s20051110-74
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| | Counterfeiting |
| | Details merge into the background which is often too dark or mottled. | | | to sell or otherwise counterfeiting use the same or Whoever prints, photographs, or in any. | | | On the counterfeit, the lines in the outer margin and scrollwork may be blurred and. |
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http://counterfeiting.hrast.be
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| | Counterfeit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Bogos: The Dangerous, Controversial, and Fascinating World of Counterfeit Coins | | | This building was used to mint counterfeit American nickels in the late 19th and/or early 20th centuries. | | | In Russia, authorities estimate that 90% of products sold to people are counterfeit, while in China there are an estimated 3 to 5 million people working in the counterfeit industry. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeit
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| | Counterfeiting of Financial Instruments |
| | Counterfeit bank notes are usually surface printed which has no raised effect. | | | Also, the percentage of counterfeit U.S. currency passed in the United States, that was produced using inkjet color copiers, has jumped from 0.5% in 1995 to 43% in 1998. | | | This was double that of the previous year, and primarily due to a large counterfeit operation producing $100's. |
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http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Crimes/Business/counterfeiting.htm
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| | IFPMA Issues: Quality & Counterfeiting |
| | Counterfeiting is growing in scale and geographical scope. | | | All medicines are subject to counterfeiting, both branded and generic. | | | Parallel trade in medicines is legal, for example within the EU, but relabelling of products by wholesalers to allow them to be sold in another country creates opportunities for counterfeit products to enter the supply chain. |
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| | Counterfeiting, especially the emerging hobby of desktop counterfeiting, strikes right at the heart of Mammon, pissing on its ultimate sacrament. | | | [D]esktop counterfeiters are much harder to catch because the systems they use are ubiquitous and the number of forgeries they produce are typically small.” | | | Meanwhile, counterfeiters in Colombia are suspected of manufacturing more than a third of the counterfeit notes seized in the U.S. in 1999. |
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| | The Case for Counterfeiting - Mises Institute |
| | Lest anyone think this is silly, imagine the "stimulus" benefits that counterfeiting would produce. | | | Counterfeiters, whether they work in cramped basements or other workplaces, print money and then instantly spend it. | | | The money provides benefits to the counterfeiter, but only at the expense of other people, as a small portion of their wealth has been transferred away from them and given to the individual who printed the new money in the first place. |
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http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=843&FS=The+Case+for+Counterfeiting
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| | Fake-onomics and Bogus Counterfeiting Figures |
| | The true scale of the counterfeiting problem in New York -- and across the country -- is much smaller. | | | Stipp's number is not the most commonly cited estimate used to establish counterfeiting numbers. | | | Third, dollar exchange, the actual money paid for a counterfeit product, should always be a lower number than losses. |
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http://www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1132653921049&rss=ihc
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| | counterfeiting |
| | Other early statutes were directed against debasing the coinage by clipping or filing off the edges to sell the metal. | | | To commit the crime of counterfeiting one does not necessarily have to make a whole coin or bill. | | | counterfeiting, manufacturing spurious coins, paper money, or evidences of governmental obligation (e.g., bonds) in the semblance of the true. |
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| | United States Secret Service: Counterfeit Division |
| | One reason for this is the ease and speed with which large quantities of counterfeit currency can be produced using modern photographic and printing equipment. | | | Each bill carried a different design, making it difficult to detect counterfeit bills from the 7,000 varieties of real bills. | | | Today, counterfeiting once again is on the rise. |
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| | US cracking down on piracy, counterfeiting |
| | A counterfeit operation can get a new design and produce copies without regard to quality or safety and ship them within 24 hours," Zoellick said. | | | "Counterfeiting is no longer just the street corner fraudster selling counterfeit watches out of a counterfeit briefcase," US Attorney General John Ashcroft said. | | | The bogus trade affects a wide range of products including aircraft parts, brake pads, windshields, cigarettes, perfume, shampoo, birth control pills and watches - many of which are dangerous for consumers to use or just much lower in quality than the originals, US officials said. |
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| | FDA endorses ID tags for drugmakers CNET News.com |
| | Many drugmakers use serial numbers and bar codes to keep track of their products. | | | RFID systems could be a better tool to detect counterfeiting, because they're designed to keep closer tabs on the origin and authenticity of goods. | | | The illegal activity harms consumers and slices into drug companies' profits. |
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| | Welcome to Authentix, Product Authentication, Authentication, Counterfeiting, Counterfeit Detection, Product Protection |
| | So if you have a problem with counterfeiting, adulteration, diversion or smuggling, Authentix will give you the results that you can see on your bottom line. | | | Welcome to Authentix, Product Authentication, Authentication, Counterfeiting, Counterfeit Detection, Product Protection | | | Moreover, our skills in applying those technologies to solve counterfeit, adulteration and smuggling issues for clients, ensures that we are a trusted partner of many of the world's leading brand owners and governments. |
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http://www.authentix.com
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| | GMA News Release GMA CALLS FOR INITIATIVES TO END PRODUCT COUNTERFEITING 6/15/05: |
| | And each dollar lost by law-abiding, hard-working Americans and companies winds up lining the pockets criminals," Arthur testified. | | | Developing purchasing guidelines for manufacturers and retailers to ensure that global supply chains are free of illicit goods, a project on which GMA is partnering with other consumer products and retail trade associations to advance. | | | Securing Senate approval of the Stop Counterfeiting in Manufactured Goods Act (H.R. 32), which would give U.S. law enforcement officials the ability to confiscate the equipment and assets used by criminals to produce counterfeit products and labels. |
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http://www.gmabrands.com/news/docs/NewsRelease.cfm?DocID=1527
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| | MedWatch - Epogen Healthcare profesional letter |
| | Contact the company for a copy of any referenced enclosures. | | | Amgen does not recommend the purchase of Amgen products from wholesalers that do not currently purchase EPOGEN directly from Amgen. | | | The following information may help in determining if the product you have is counterfeit. |
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| | PCWorld.com - Microsoft Files Eight Counterfeiting Lawsuits |
| | The Redmond, Washington, company filed similar suits against eight other dealers in 2004. | | | Microsoft discovered the alleged counterfeiting during its test purchasing program, under which it buys software from dealers to test for authenticity. | | | In an effort to fight piracy, the company lobbied for new legislation that provides criminal and civil penalties for the distribution of stand-alone Certificate of Authenticity (COA) labels or authentic COA labels that are separated from the software they are intended to certify. |
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http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,120380,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp
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| | Desktop Counterfeiting Software |
| | Do you have access to a color laser printer? | | | Thanks to the new technology of the digital age, you can make money in the privacy of your own home. | | | Then you should order our Desktop counterfeiting software kit! |
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http://www.digicrime.com/counterfeit
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| | Trademark Counterfeiting - Perspectives - Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick |
| | This includes working with foreign law firms to prevent counterfeiting and private investigation firms to track down counterfeiters. | | | Most countries have counterfeiting laws similar to those in the U.S. to combat counterfeiters, though some countries' laws are more effective than others. | | | Trademarks need to be protected like any other asset that a company owns. |
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| | FRB: Press Release -- Report to the Congress on Use and Counterfeiting of U.S. Currency Abroad -- March 14, 2003 |
| | U.S. dollars are held and widely used around the world, and the popularity and ubiquity of the dollar make it a potential target for counterfeiters. | | | The report highlights important steps the U.S. Government is currently taking to combat global counterfeiting: | | | These efforts will include further security enhancements to the currency design, enhanced cooperation with international law enforcement agencies and additional training of foreign law enforcement, and financial officials in counterfeit detection. |
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http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/other/2003/20030314
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| | Document Security Systems > Offering a full range of anti-counterfeiting products |
| | Fortune 500 companies have reported that they spend an average of between $2 - $4 million per year to combat counterfeiting. | | | A study by the International Trademark Association estimated that a group of participating manufacturers lost an average of 22 percent of their sales as a result of trademark infringement and counterfeiting. | | | According to the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC), automobile manufacturers are losing $12 billion annually, and the equivalent of 210,000 jobs, to counterfeit parts. |
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| | Holografix Bangladesh |
| | During the year 1997-98, in the total size of the replacement market in india in respect of 12 fast moving auto components, duplicates accounted for a staggering 37.60% (about rs. | | | Worldwide losses to business from counterfeiting of trademarked consumer products accounts for a staggering us $ 340 billion a year | | | They may shun counterfeited brands if there is any adverse publicity; |
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| | ECB: Counterfeiting |
| | Both centres analyse those counterfeits which are considered to be dangerous, as they are either occurring in considerable numbers or as their quality is deceiving. | | | The national centres register details of the amounts and locations of counterfeits found and assess the less dangerous counterfeits. | | | Interpol and Europol match data retrieved from the Counterfeit Monitoring System with crime record data on their own information systems. |
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http://www.ecb.int/bc/banknotes/counterfeiting/html/index.en.html
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| | Intellectual Property Protection - Counterfeiting |
| | Assisting clients to enforce their rights against product counterfeiters is one of IPSA’s largest service groups. | | | On a global basis, product counterfeiting is growing at a staggering rate in part due to the fact that counterfeiting remains a high-return low-risk operation in terms of apprehension and the resulting penalties if caught are often negligible. | | | Criminal and even terrorist organizations are now engaging in counterfeit product distribution to finance their activities creating a greater challenge for law enforcement officials due to lack of resources and multi-jurisdictional reach. |
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http://www.ipsaintl.com/services/intellectual_property1.cfm
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| | North Korean Counterfeiting Complicates Nuclear Crisis - New York Times |
| | South Korea, a longtime partner of Washington against North Korea, went to lengths to distance itself from the American accusations, even to the point of denying that the United States had sought its support. | | | While Washington favors a harder line, Seoul hopes a gentler approach may one day lead to a reunification of the two Koreas, specialists say. | | | South Korea also seems to share concerns that the counterfeiting issue is threatening six-nation talks aimed at peacefully ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/international/asia/29korea.html?ex=1296190800&en=924097ad4a506343&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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| | The Rodsmen Part 4 |
| | The expressing "phony as a three-dollar bill" goes back to the post-Civil War period when US Treasury notes and silver certificates were were only printed for the denominations of $1, $2, $5 and higher. | | | During the full career of Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer's bogus money business, it got abroad into the world that they were engaged in it.... | | | In January 1837 Oliver Cowdery (former Mormon "First Elder," but by then simply "Assistant President") was in Monroe, Michigan, busily signing his name to stacks of those proverbial "three-dollar bills." Little more than a year later, at Far West, Missouri, the erstwhile scribe, missionary, and second-cousin to Joeph Smith, Jr. |
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http://thedigitalvoice.com/enigma/essays/rodsmn04.htm
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| | Bureau of Engraving and Printing |
| | Anyone who manufactures a counterfeit U.S. coin in any denomination above five cents is subject to the same penalties as all other counterfeiters. | | | Anyone who alters a genuine coin to increase its numismatic value is in violation of Title 18, Section 331 of the United States Code, which is punishable by a fine of up to $2,000, or imprisonment for up to 5 years, or both. | | | Manufacturing counterfeit United States currency or altering genuine currency to increase its value is a violation of Title 18, Section 471 of the United States Code and is punishable by a fine of up to $5,000, or 15 years imprisonment, or both. |
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| | Trade group claims terrorists behind counterfeiting, piracy networks |
| | According to the report, "renegade Republicans" were planning to plant a 40lb Semtex bomb at a "counterfeiting black spot", the Nutts Corner Market in Belfast. | | | Evidence it gathers in its report names Asian "Mafia" groups and illegal immigrants working out of Southall, and reports that the Organised Crime Task Force in Northern Ireland estimates 34% of the "terrorist" groups there were involved in product counterfeiting of all types. | | | But it also claims that the police, Customs and trading standard services don't regard intellectual property fraud as a priority, which obviously the Alliance does. |
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| | Countering Counterfeiting |
| | A practical manual describing the nature, scale and impact of product counterfeiting and outlining strategies that can be adopted to prevent and protect. | | | The guide describes ways in which victims of counterfeiters can respond through the protection and enforcement of their intellectual property rights. | | | Contents: * The World of Counterfeiting * Intellectual Property Rights - the Corporate "Crown Jewels" * Prevention is Better than Cure * Product Protection - Using Anti-counterfeiting Technologies * Reacting to Counterfeiting and Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights |
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http://www.iccbooks.com/2004_product.asp?num_pub=574&list_price=7800&lang_id=1&eBook=0&mscssid=M6CW5U14FNU99NQUWK7HC4NFEG2679H3
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| | USSS Know Your Money |
| | Every year the public is victimized by the counterfeiting of United States currency and other U.S. obligations. | | | For more information on United States currency, visit the Bureau of Engraving and Printing web site at http://www.moneyfactory.com/. | | | This site is designed to help you detect counterfeit currency and guard against forgery loss. |
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| | Piracy and Counterfeiting |
| | The parties responsible for this piracy are often organized crime groups with ties to many other nefarious activities. | | | The State Department also works with many U.S. industry organizations such as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC). | | | The State Department's Office of Intellectual Property Enforcement conducts anti-piracy efforts on its own and with other U.S. Government agencies involved in combating piracy and counterfeiting, such as the Copyright Office (part of the Library of Congress), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the Departments of Justice and Commerce. |
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| | Chalabi accused of counterfeiting - (United Press International) |
| | Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Ahmad Chalabi, once a favored adviser to the United States, is accused of counterfeiting old Iraqi dinars in Iraqi arrest warrants. | | | Chalabi accused of counterfeiting - (United Press International) |
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