Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating the sale of bogus tickets for Miami Heat basketball games after a former NFL Hall of Fame player was scammed out of first-row seats and $200,000, WPTV.com reports. Quarterback Warren Moon was reportedly scammed, along with other NFL players Charles Woodson and Jarvis Green. The FBI confirmed it…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Something doesn’t smell right. So says the FBI, which reports an increase in the sale of counterfeit cosmetics and fragrances. According to the agency’s recent blog, more people are being scammed with phony cosmetics and counterfeit fragrances that are being shipped into the U.S. That’s especially dangerous because phony cosmetics may contain…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal law enforcement authorities seized 132 domain names worldwide because they were selling counterfeit merchandise online, the Associated Press reports. The Cyber Monday crackdown, which comes during the heaviest online shopping day, was the third annual effort to target knockoff clothes, DVDs and other goods. Authorities seized the sites after confirming authenticity…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Gene Carlo Pena fooled no one when he stuffed two ATMs in midtown Manhattan with poorly designed counterfeit bills, NBC 4 New York reports. The 26-year-old man was working for a company that services ATMs when he replaced $11,000 with amateurish fake bills, NBC 4 reported. The bills were blank on one…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Apparently the feds wanted to make a big stink out this case. Two men from China — Shaoxiong Zhou, 42, and Shaoxia Huang, 33 — have pleaded guilty U.S. District Court in Brooklyn — to trafficking in counterfeit perfume. Zhou pleaded guilty Friday. His co-defendant pleaded on Aug. 3. Authorities said…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The buck apparently stopped with 67-year-old Bernard von NotHaus. Von NotHaus, who was part of an anti-government movement, was convicted last week in federal court in North Carolina of minting roughly $7 million in Liberty Dollar coins, authorities said. Authorities said investigators found that he had been making and disseminating the…
