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eCommerce Marketplaces Crack Down on Fakes to Boost Consumer Trust
eCommerce Marketplaces Crack Down on Fakes to Boost Consumer Trust
March 29, 2024  |  eCommerce

With trust proving to be a key factor for consumers’ decisions about where they want to spend their money digitally, online merchants are cracking down...

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Demand for Brand Authenticators Rises Amid Growing Threat of Counterfeits
Demand for Brand Authenticators Rises Amid Growing Threat of Counterfeits
November 17, 2022  |  Retail

Recalling then-candidate Joe Biden’s 2019 advice that out-of-work coal miners should learn to code, now-unemployed coders may want to check job listings for “Luxury Procurement...

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Edible Barcodes Turn Sights On Counterfeit Goods
Edible Barcodes Turn Sights On Counterfeit Goods
October 17, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

As the global digital economy grows, and consumers buy more items from their mobile and other web-connected devices, a problem grows along with that. We...

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Amazon’s New Anti-Fraud Program Helps Sellers Avoid Counterfeits
Amazon’s New Anti-Fraud Program Helps Sellers Avoid Counterfeits
October 01, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

In its ongoing efforts to prevent fraud on its site, on Tuesday (Oct. 1) Amazon announced a new program to help sellers make sure their...

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Online Marketplaces And The $1.8T Counterfeit Problem
Online Marketplaces And The $1.8T Counterfeit Problem
September 19, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

Fraudsters sold counterfeit products worth $323 billion last year, and are projected to make off with $1.8T by 2020. Kimberly Gianopoulos, director at the U.S....

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Instagram’s High-Fashion Fakes Problem
Instagram’s High-Fashion Fakes Problem
May 06, 2019  |  Retail

Instagram has a counterfeit goods problem. That is what the latest data from analytics firm Ghost Data strongly indicated, anyway, as its survey of the site...

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Amazon Lets Brands Remove Fakes From eCommerce Platform
Amazon Lets Brands Remove Fakes From eCommerce Platform
February 28, 2019  |  Amazon

Amazon is adopting a new approach to fighting counterfeits on its platform, announcing on Thursday (Feb. 28) the launch of Project Zero. The new program,...

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Jewel Paymentech Takes On Marketplace Counterfeits
Jewel Paymentech Takes On Marketplace Counterfeits
February 22, 2018  |  Startup Check-In

Amazon and Alibaba may be the most high-profile eCommerce marketplaces, but they are far from the only ones, especially in smaller international markets, where hundreds...

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The Frightful Five: Fake Apps And Hubcaps
The Frightful Five: Fake Apps And Hubcaps
December 14, 2017  |  Retail

When a company is as massive as any one of the Frightful Five, the bad news is it’s inevitable that some things will slip under...

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