• Los Angeles Police Seizes Over $10 Million in Counterfeit Electronics
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The Los Angeles Port Police has broken up an illegal operation selling counterfeit iPhones, iPods, PSPs, and other gadgets. The $10 million operation included seized products worth an estimated street value of more than $1.4 million, stolen electronics, toys, and blankets worth about $2.5 million, and bank account receipts showing that the operation had generated more than $7 million in profits until it was shut down. "This was a well-funded operation, and the counterfeits looked very authentic," Ron Boyd, chief of the LA police force, told the Los Angeles Times. "Our layered, multi-agency approach to security and theft investigations led to success. We're proud of the teamwork that happens on a continuous basis to thwart consumer fraud, keep our port safe and enable our agencies to pursue cases to fruition and criminal prosecution." [IMG]http://static.techspot.com/fileshost/newspics3/2011/la_counterfeit.jpg[/IMG] The case began with stolen cargo that led officials to several downtown Los Angeles and Vernon locations in December 2010 and January 2011. Brothers Edward Zahab, 40, and Bahram Zahab, 45, have been arrested in LA. Edward has been charged with three felony counts of the sale of counterfeit goods while Bahram has been charged with one felony count of the same crime. A buyer might not have noticed anything wrong with the products until he or she got home and tried to hook it up with his or her computer. The goods were shipped from Asia as parts meant to be reassembled and labeled before being sold. In addition to LA officials, the investigation also involved the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, the Border Enforcement Security Task Force, the California Highway Patrol's Cargo Theft Interdiction Program, and the Vernon Police Department. [URL=http://www.techspot.com/news/42362-la-police-seizes-more-than-10-million-in-fake-ipods-iphones-psps.html#comments]SOURCE[/URL]
Go china! You're so great at making fake shit.
Post a direct link to the source in future: [url]http://www.techspot.com/news/42362-la-police-seizes-more-than-10-million-in-fake-ipods-iphones-psps.html[/url] The fake PSPs look something like [url=http://www.youtube.com/ashens/]Ashens[/url] would review.
[QUOTE=SteveUK;27974244]Post a direct link to the source in future: [url]http://www.techspot.com/news/42362-la-police-seizes-more-than-10-million-in-fake-ipods-iphones-psps.html[/url] The fake PSPs look something like [url=http://www.youtube.com/ashens/]Ashens[/url] would review.[/QUOTE] Did I forget it? Sorry Steve, I'll add that in now.
Woah, these look exactly like the real thing
I knew that 'ePod' felt suspicious
oh china you are so silly
Basically are real though, they just built them using parts.
[QUOTE=SteveUK;27974244]Post a direct link to the source in future: [url]http://www.techspot.com/news/42362-la-police-seizes-more-than-10-million-in-fake-ipods-iphones-psps.html[/url] The fake PSPs look something like [url=http://www.youtube.com/ashens/]Ashens[/url] would review.[/QUOTE] Just about everything there looks like something ashens would review.
But do they work?
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;27979940]But do they work?[/QUOTE] no
Why are those iPod's so huge? "This was a well-funded operation, and the counterfeits looked very authentic," No, they are gigantic.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;27979940]But do they work?[/QUOTE] I bought one of the small mp3 players from Deal Extreme for when I go on runs. It actually works nicely. Of course the included headphones are terrible, but the player itself is fine.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;27979940]But do they work?[/QUOTE] Even if the faked goods did work, there would likely to be a much faster failure.The price is too good to be true because the electronics are made from really dodgy cheap components that are likely to degrade much faster with time. You may think that a transistor is a transistor, but it really isn't like this in the real world and cheap components really degrade the product.
Is Dealxtreme doing this, because I bought a Zune from them once. And yeah they said the headphones were Sony headphones but they were pieces of shit.
[QUOTE=Pepin;27983223]Even if the faked goods did work, there would likely to be a much faster failure.The price is too good to be true because the electronics are made from really dodgy cheap components that are likely to degrade much faster with time. You may think that a transistor is a transistor, but it really isn't like this in the real world and cheap components really degrade the product.[/QUOTE] Yup, just like Samsung sending the less-than-cream-of-crop processors Apple's way. [editline]11th February 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=meepugh;27983347]Is Dealxtreme doing this, because I bought a Zune from them once. And yeah they said the headphones were Sony headphones but they were pieces of shit.[/QUOTE] DealExtreme is generally all China stuff. So it's more than possible.
[QUOTE=meepugh;27983347]Is Dealxtreme doing this, because I bought a Zune from them once. And yeah they said the headphones were [b]Sony headphones but they were pieces of shit[/b].[/QUOTE] I don't understand. They told you that the headphones were Sony headphones. You should have known. [editline]11th February 2011[/editline] Dealextreme isn't doing this. If anything people are buying products from DX and passing them of as "legit" here to the unsuspecting eye.
Want to know if you bought a counterfeit Ipad? There's an app for that.
[QUOTE=garrynohome;27974089]... stolen electronics, toys, and [b]blankets[/b] worth about $2.5 million...[/QUOTE] Wait, what?
This might seem like meh, it's the chinese at it again. But think about all of the illegal cloned Cisco equipment that could be used in mission-critical stuff by the government. Or cloned dangerous fake drugs that are being sold on the streets to people. Or fake medical equipment that's lying in a hospital, waiting to kill people. These are probably properly fake though, not unlike those cloned Cisco stuff. (When Cisco moved their factories to China, they'd run an extra shift after hours and basically made the same product, but fake serials and such. Same product as the real one but with fake firmware that could work fine for ages and then explode).
Sometimes with apple products, you can buy the fake products and they are better. Trust me.
no now how will I buy a funstation [img]http://www.tradenote.net/images/users/000/357/566/products_images/700366.jpg[/img]
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