Category Archives: Online Fraud Detection

A Suffolk firm have admitted selling copyrighted items online without permission of brands like Land Rover, Ford and Warner Bros.

Sticar’s director, Christopher Taylor, pleaded guilty to 15 counts of Trade Marks Act violations and five counts against the Copyright Designs and Patents Acts.

According to the New! website, extra working on the new Harry Potter spin-off film has been fired for allegedly taking a prop from the set and trying to sell it on an internet auction site.

Film bosses behind Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, starring Eddie Redmayne and Colin Farrell, threatened to call in the police after they discovered a prop menu from a dinner scene had been listed on eBay.com.

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.