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Faking a Company

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-like-the-real-thing dept.

gambit3 writes "What happens when pirating a movie, an application, or a game is not enough for you? Well, you take the next step and pirate a whole company. It happened to Japanese electronics giant NEC. Counterfeiters had set up what amounted to a parallel NEC brand with links to a network of more than 50 electronics factories in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan."

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  1. not "faking a company" by mapkinase · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    this is called "faking a brand". To fake the company, one needs to fake offices, for starters, so people can walk up to the office with sign "NEC" on it without knowing.

    Did they pretend to be NEC in wholesale deals with other businessmen and the other businessmen did not they were dealing with them? I did not find it in TA.

    I do not know if previously electronics was faked, it seems to me that it happened ito happen in the past as well, so I do not think this is news of "faking a company", looks like it is the case of "faking the news".

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