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Christmas shoppers warned after nearly 8,000 pairs of counterfeit trainers worth almost £400,000 were seized at Felixstowe docks.

03 December 2015

03.12.15 - A total of 7,827 pairs of fake Heelys children's trainers were found in a consignment which smugglers attempted to bring into the country through Felixstowe.

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Christmas shoppers warned after Border Force seize counterfeit goods

01 December 2015

01.12.15 - Border Force officers are warning festive shoppers against buying counterfeit goods this Christmas after seizing thousands of fakes at the UK's ports, airports and postal hubs.

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Seized: The counterfeit goods that could have been deadly Christmas presents

01 December 2015

01.12.15 - Chemical-coated toys, flaky makeup, dodgy watches & sham handbags are just some of the counterfeit items worth millions of pounds seized at Manchester Airport.

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Europol Operation In-Our-Sites (IOS) takes down 999 websites selling counterfeit goods

30 November 2015

30.11.15 - The operation tackled the sale of counterfeit goods (including intellectual property (IP) trademark infringements) and online piracy (IP copyright infringements) on e-commerce platforms and social networks.

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Good advice from Which? when buying on-line

26 November 2015

26.11.15 - Which? is urging consumers to avoid fraudulent websites, as well as fake and counterfeit products, ahead of frenzied Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales shopping.

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How to tell counterfeit from genuine items on Black Friday

26 November 2015

26.11.15 - Last year, over one million people found they had bought a counterfeit.

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Counterfeit goods seized at Bescot Market, Walsall

24 November 2015

24.11.15 - Walsall Council trading standards officers and Walsall Police swooped to seize the equivalent of a 20 foot container full of fake goods from four stalls at Bescot market during a visit on Sunday, November 15.

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Counterfeit Disney toys seized in black market crackdown

23 November 2015

23.11.15 - Ireland's booming Christmas black market is now worth more than €500m.

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Police in pre-Christmas crackdown on counterfeit goods as £2m of fake designer goods seized

20 November 2015

20.11.15 - Knock-off clothing, bags and trainers were recovered when police swooped on a business unit in the Strangeways area at 7.30am on Friday morning.A man was also detained by immigration officers and will now be questioned in custody, police said.

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Crime groups currently working in rackets including drugs, prostitution, money laundering, tobacco smuggling, counterfeit goods and extortion, in the Glasgow area

18 November 2015

18.11.15 - A CRIME-BUSTING police squad have claimed to have stopped Glasgow gangsters from getting their hands on more than £5 million in business contracts.

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ACG represents more than 3,000 brands affected by this influx of fakes into the UK and delivers an international network of information, advice and contacts on all aspects of IP protection. Working with Government and law enforcement agencies since 1980, ACG is focused on providing an effective and sustained response to counterfeiting.

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