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Fake job offers: How to avoid getting duped in job scams

Fake job rackets have become a booming industry, thanks to shrinking jobs in private as well as public sector and hordes of students passing out of low-quality professional colleges. According to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, India’s unemployment rate in April 2019 shot up to 7.6%, the highest since October 2016. Combined with easy accessibility of the Internet, this has come as a boon for job scammers, who are offering non-existent jobs to desperate youth. “Students fresh out of…

Counterfeiting is a billion-dollar problem. COVID-19 has made it far worse

Since the coronavirus crisis intensified, shoppers have had little choice but to turn to e-commerce, even for basic essentials. In a recent study conducted by Red Points, the online brand-protection company that I lead, we found 60.4% of consumers said they have increased online shopping versus shopping in-store, and 60% of Americans are purchasing more household cleaning products online. This makes consumers vulnerable to the rising number of counterfeit goods online. The number of counterfeit goods on the internet has grown exponentially since…

Coronavirus: Beware! Fake masks, sprays going ‘viral’

Unscrupulous elements are playing with the trust of panicky buyers and making a killing in their bid to make overnight profits. On Friday, as Coronavirus infection cases continued to spiral in Delhi-NCR, the Union government notified that face masks and hand sanitisers were “essential” commodities. This was just one of the measures meant to contain hoarding or overpricing of these items. Less than 24 hours after this, a district administration team sealed an unlicensed unit in Noida’s Sector 63 where…

COVID-19 Counterfeit Products And Fake Goods – Indian Law Perspective

As misinformation on COVID-19 continues to spread, there is another more serious threat being dispersed through back trade channels and that is of counterfeit goods either for sale at exorbitant prices or fake goods proclaiming to cure or treat the virus. In 2018, Forbes announced that counterfeiting was the largest criminal enterprise in the world1 and the sales of counterfeit and pirated goods totals $1.7 trillion per year, which is more than drugs and human trafficking. This was before we were…

Fake products worth over Rs 50 lakh seized

A police raid at a small house at Jagdispura in UP‘s Agra on Friday yielded counterfeit “branded products” – including cosmetics such as face-wash, skin foundation, hair oil, lip balm – worth over Rs 50 lakh. Speaking to TOI, investigation officer of private agency Dilip Kumar Singh said, “For the last many months our high-end brand clients were complaining about counterfeit products hampering their business in UP. During our extensive investigation, we found that a network of source of men spread across Agra. Mathura, Meerut, Varanasi,…

Enforcement Branch of Kolkata Police conducted a search operation and seized a large quantity of counterfeit goods

Counterfeit goods and packets and containers of different sizes were being manufactured in a warehouse at Nilmadhab Sen Lane in Jorasanko police station area. Products and packets of reputed companies like Dabur India Limited, Bare Corp Science Limited and Insecticide India Limited were being sold in fake form. Its value in the market is lakhs of rupees.…

Enforcement branch seized huge number of fake pesticides

The Enforcement Branch of the Kolkata Police conducted a search operation and seized a large quantity of fake pesticides in the Jorasanko area. These were being sold at the label center of a reputed company. The seized items are worth lakhs of rupees. However, no one was arrested in the incident. According to EB sources, counterfeit products of the reputed company and packets and containers of different sizes were being made in a warehouse at Nilmadhab Sen Lane in Jorasanko…