counterfeits

Amazon Accused in Suit of Touting American Eagle Knock-Offs
Amazon Accused in Suit of Touting American Eagle Knock-Offs
September 26, 2024  |  Retail

American Eagle Outfitters has reportedly filed a trademark infringement suit against Amazon. The suit alleges that Amazon used branding from the clothing retailer’s Aerie line...

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Solana Labs Debuts Customer Engagement Platform Bond
Solana Labs Debuts Customer Engagement Platform Bond
June 12, 2024  |  Blockchain

Blockchain firm Solana Labs has debuted Bond, a customer engagement platform for brands. “By leveraging blockchain technology, Bond enables global brands to create personalized, transparent, and engaging digital...

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Scammers Pose as Small Business to Sell Knockoff Goods
Scammers Pose as Small Business to Sell Knockoff Goods
June 10, 2024  |  Fraud Attack

Scammers are reportedly using technology such as AI to up their attacks on smaller merchants. As The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Monday (June 10),...

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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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