Knockoff Rip-Offs Research Paper

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Knockoff Rip-offs are crimes against consumers that involves a person or a business altering products to receive more money in the end. These types of crimes have been on the rise for many years. People are very concerned with have products that are current and new that they will buy anything and everything just to fit it. Knockoff rip-off crimes continue to increase because consumer are unaware that they are being taken advantage of by businesses. The two common types of knockoff rip-off crimes are knockoff or fake brands and price gouging.The first example is the knockoff or fake brand scheme. This process includes businesses creating fake product brands that are similar to the real ones that have already been created. Consumers are interested in the fake product because they think that is is the real brand. …show more content…

The book states that the majority of the fake products that are her in the United States comes from China. Children as young as seven years old are being recruited to make these fake items so that their families can live a good life. An example of knock off scheme is the 2001 case regarding bootleg copies of DVDs and CDS. In this case a large amount of fake Microsoft software was found and seized. These copies were in route to stores within the Los Angeles area to be sold to consumers. The second example is price gouging. Price gouging is when a business or a person intentionally increases the price of a product in order to make a better profit. Price gouging is common in regards to economic adulteration. This refers to businesses using the cheaper form of a product because it cost less to make.This is usually seen in terms of food products.The book gives and example regarding California. There have been reports that 60 to 70 percent of olive oil bottles that are being sold as extra virgin olive oil in fact have lower

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