JohnTC02 Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Trading Standards officers have reported a sharp rise in the number of copycat websites selling fake branded goods over the internet. Bogus sites pass themselves off as the real thing with an almost identical design and a similar internet address. "The number has just increased and increased," said Handley Brustad, lead officer, intellectual property at the Trading Standards Institute. "They feed off the real brands and mirror the genuine site to pull you in." Trading Standards now wants search engines like Google to do more to identify sites that sell counterfeit goods and remove them from their paid search results. Read full story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Trading Standards now wants search engines like Google to do more to identify sites that sell counterfeit goods and remove them from their paid search results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeealice Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 they are idiots,its all the more reason to look out for the HTTPS in the URL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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