2020-12-15 | COVID Vaccine Counterfeiting Will Be Explosive

Liquid Gold. That's how Interpol has described organized crime's view of vaccine demand. The more in demand a product is, the more it will be counterfeited. We can count on an absolute tidal wave of COVID vaccine and treatment counterfeiting to flood the markets now that the vaccine is available.

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2020-03-17 | Coronavirus Tests – A Counterfeiter’s Dream

I have written and spoken about global counterfeiting issues many times. Pretty much in every single one, I’ve said something like “if you have a successful product, it will be counterfeited.” Illicit counterfeit rings have infiltrated pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, cosmetics, fragrances, automobile parts, aircraft parts, clothing, footwear, wine, spirits and more. The riches and rewards from producing and distributing counterfeit products in most cases far outweigh the penalties of getting...

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2020-03-04 | C-Suite Brief: The ROI on Anti-Counterfeiting Solutions

The fight against counterfeiting and diversion is at a crossroad. Never has there been such a loss of revenue due to these global supply chain threats and it’s only getting worse. Companies are spending over $105 billion annually to combat these issues, yet this “gray market” of products is projected to surpass $2.8 trillion globally by 2022… That’s a 100% increase over ten years!

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2019-07-24 | Counterfeiting and Diversion is Booming in China … So I went to AIPIA Shanghai

Did you know that 80 percent of the world’s counterfeit goods come from China? Everything including luxury goods, cosmetics, wine and spirits, medicine and more are vulnerable to duplication and sometimes the fakes are so similar that it can be hard to determine the real from the phony. With that being said, brand owners across the globe view China’s counterfeiting business as a threat to their own.

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2019-04-25 | State of Emergency: Health and Beauty Counterfeiting and Diversion

There used to be a time when one could discern a fake cosmetic product from an authentic one by just examining the package. Certain external characteristics—or flaws—like a misspelled word or a flimsy material would give it away. Now, printing and imaging technology has evolved and become so inexpensive that counterfeiters can easily obtain it to create packaging that fools even the savviest consumer. Third-party sellers online like Amazon, Jet.com and other smaller e-retailers have made it...

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2019-03-13 | The Threat of the Gray Market is Real

No country is immune from the ravages of drug addiction, abuse and overdose. Last month, news broke of the rising number of deaths in Northern Ireland and the entire UK in general due to counterfeit Xanax which is indicative of this global epidemic. It doesn’t matter if a drug is legalized, prescription-only or not even for sale in a country. If there is a demand for it, it will be available by some channel. No software company, Systech included, is going to stop counterfeiters from...

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2019-02-18 | What’s All the Buzz About Counterfeit Wine and Spirits?

In partnership with SafeProof.

Bootlegging alcohol didn’t get left behind in the Prohibition Era. In fact, according to a 2014 report by the World Health Organization, unregulated alcohol makes up 25% of all consumption worldwide. But what are the implications of fake alcohol? Why should everyone from consumers to manufacturers to government entities care? Let’s take a look at the facts.

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2018-03-02 | The Real Threat of Fake Alcohol: A Q & A with Safeproof.org

If you’ve searched online for information about the dangers and risks of counterfeit alcohol, chances are you’ve encountered Safeproof.org. They’ve been researching, writing and informing the industry and consumers about counterfeit or fake alcohol—creating awareness and tracking the global trends. We reached out to Safeproof.org’s Daniel Dachille to ask some questions about these issues, and the answers are eye-opening!

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2017-09-08 | Diversion in the Pharmaceuticals Market

The opioid crisis in the United States has been described as an epidemic requiring urgent action on the part of government, law enforcement, health advocates and other stakeholders. A substantial portion of overdose deaths result from opioids produced by reputable manufacturers for legitimate medical purposes that have been redirected to illegitimate use. This transfer of a legal substance to illegitimate or illicit use is known as diversion, and represents a major challenge in the...

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2017-08-25 | Our View: Counterfeiting the Gray Market

Advisory firm KPMG recently conducted a detailed survey of executives from companies within a technology supply chain to find out how gray market trading was impacting them.  The report and its findings are applicable in many commercial supply chains; and so, we recommend you download it from KPMG.

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