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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. I suspect this is extremely common by bobamu · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was looking at a chinese electronics manufacturers page some time ago, and they had a bulletin board.

    One of the posts effectively consisted of "Can you make me some tv's branded panasonic and send them to north africa"

    Tip of the iceberg, perhaps.