Category Archives: Online Fraud Detection

Vogue recently reported that iconic brand Belstaff is celebrating after being awarded more than $42m in damages from 676 offending websites, selling counterfeit imitations of its products.

The majority of the products being copied comprised outerwear, including the brand’s famous leather jackets.

According to the Southern Daily Echo, a mobile phone accessory company has lost out on £200,000 after using fake well-known brands and football club trademarks on phone covers.

Police officers seized hundreds of phone covers from CellBell Ltd in Hampshire, bearing trademarks of Premier League football clubs, including Southampton FC, and other famous brands including Beats and Chanel.

According to a story in The Leader, a Wrexham man has admitted handling and selling stolen Vauxhall parts worth thousands of pounds on eBay.

Mark Roberts had a stash of goods worth £38,000 which had been taken by an employee from the Vauxhall car plant in Ellesmere Port.

In Blackpool, The Gazette reports that a supermarket worker stole goods worth an estimated £42,000 from his employer to sell on eBay in a “massive abuse of position”.

Daniel Cannon, 28, had access to the Asda warehouse in Fleetwood, from where he would steal mobile phones and tablets over a series of months.

According to the Sheffield Star, a crook stole counterfeit items – fake watches and boots – from a Trading Standards warehouse and sold them on eBay.

Kevin Johnson, jailed for four-and-a-half years, also handled designer shoes and accessories stolen from local vintage clothing firm Rocket Originals.

The Manchester Evening News carries a story of a binman who swiped 8,000 rolls of biodegradable bags from his employers and made more then £11,000 selling them online.

Paul Strickland was meant to hand out the bags on his rounds but instead he stole 1.5m bags and sold them on eBay at £7 a roll.