Microprinting is a common anti-counterfeit technique that involves printing very very small text, usually too small to read with the naked eye.
Likewise, the tool draws on routine activity theory, but focuses on different characteristics of offenders such as the types and groups of counterfeiters and their counterfeiting techniques.
Because counterfeiting techniques change quickly, the government intends to change the design of some bills every 7 to 10 years.
There is some slight solace in interesting discussions about currency design and the latest anti-counterfeiting techniques.
It serves as a remedial course in ticket scalping and counterfeiting techniques, and while some of the tips are for people who look up "gullible" in the dictionary (it's in there), even the most devious-minded among us cannot stay ahead of modern high-tech scalpers, so a refresher is worth checking out.
The Institute of Medicine has recently published a report on "Countering the Problem of Falsified and Substandard Drugs" that contains a very comprehensive review of drug detection techniques 11 and several reviews on simple counterfeit drug field-detection techniques.
Because digital data (e.g., image, audio, and video) are easily counterfeited, digital watermarking techniques effectively prevent illegal duplication and provide digital copyright management or authentication.
An objective of this article is to illustrate the use of multiple, simple, and low-cost techniques to accurately identify a counterfeit drug.
Ensuring that their innovative products are protected against counterfeiting and various other techniques that jeopardize their intellectual property is essential to doing this.
The exhibit, Metropolitan Police Service's Investigation of Fakes and Forgeries, will explore the work of counterfeit mastermind Shaun Greenhalgh, and reveal some of the techniques used by the police to spot fakes.
The research goes beyond old-fashioned chemistry: digital forensic techniques have already been used to trace counterfeit products to a warehouse in south-west England, and to stop shipments from organised crime networks in China, the report says.
