Now, three months since Dulwich picture gallery challenged the public to "spot the fake" after replacing one of their collection masterpieces with a Chinese replica, the gallery has finally revealed the counterfeit.
A counterfeit version of Corbusier's Ronchamp chapel, a spellbinding building in eastern France, sprung up in Zhengzhou in the 1990s, but was demolished after the furious foundation weighed in.
The town's Arizona market – a haven for drugs, prostitution, guns and counterfeit merchandise during and after the war - was transformed into a licensed, regulated bazaar.
From pirated DVDs to knock-off designer brands, the country has a thriving counterfeit culture, often facilitated by local protectionism and a reluctance on the part of the authorities to enforce fledgling intellectual property laws.
The president is trying to distance himself from a counterfeit-note scandal going back to 1997 that involves Hassan Fadoul Kitir, a former minister and the prefect of the Ouaddai region.
There has also been a scandal about counterfeit money, and sharp criticism from Chad's foreign donors.The rebels of the Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad have their bases in the mountainous desert of the north, from which they attack the government's troops.
With such money on the table, affiliates will find new ways to get through users' defences and the spam king, or a suitably counterfeit version, will be back.
CUSTOM seizures of counterfeit goods rose by 17% in the EU last year, according the European Commission.
Penalties for hawking counterfeit biscuits are considerably lighter than those for smuggling drugs or guns.
At least $16 billion-worth of goods sold each year inside the country are counterfeit, according to one conservative estimate.
The 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre was financed, in part, by sales of counterfeit T-shirts in New York; and the CIB maintains that the IRA has funded some of its activities in recent years through video piracy.
