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Holiday shoppers should steer clear of counterfeit goods, feds warn — highlighting hidden dangers
NY Post ^ | 11/21/2023 | Desheania Andrews and Steve Janoski

Posted on 11/21/2023 12:22:51 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Those watches, handbags and sunglasses might look awfully alluring when laid out on a New York City street corner — but the feds want holiday shoppers to keep walking.

That was the message they hammered home Tuesday as federal authorities warned people not to shell out their hard-earned dollars for fraudulent goods — whose very existence poses a shadowy threat to the country, they said.

“Today we’re here to warn the public again with an old saying that will stand the test of time: If the deal seems too good to be true, it probably is,” Marina Vides, assistant special agent-in-charge of Homeland Security Investigations, said from the cargo facility at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: counterfeit; crime; fake; good; holiday; shoppers
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They really really thing we are stupid
1 posted on 11/21/2023 12:22:51 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lol. The Fed agencies themselves are fraudulent goods.


2 posted on 11/21/2023 12:25:15 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When the feds become salesmen for Lois Vitto, I think it’s time to end their paychecks from our Treasury.


3 posted on 11/21/2023 12:26:56 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

(Louis Vitton)


4 posted on 11/21/2023 12:27:34 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oh they care so much about us …I mean their completely deflated economy

The predictions must be devastating


5 posted on 11/21/2023 12:37:09 PM PST by stanne
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To: blackdog

Vuitton


6 posted on 11/21/2023 12:37:33 PM PST by stanne
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To: stanne

I’m comforted in my error on that matter.


7 posted on 11/21/2023 12:38:26 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Solution-—pay for the counterfeit goods with counterfeit money.

According to the United States Department of Treasury, an estimated $70 million in counterfeit bills are in circulation, or approximately one counterfeit note for every 10,000 in genuine currency.
-—Crews Bank website


8 posted on 11/21/2023 12:44:20 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging.It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Then be doubly careful about Amazon 3rd party purchases.


9 posted on 11/21/2023 12:44:44 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: blackdog

LOL!


10 posted on 11/21/2023 12:45:15 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Thank God our federal protectors have time to protect us like this. Obviously all the big crimes have been solved and all the MAGA people put in their place, so they can concentrate on this.


11 posted on 11/21/2023 12:53:53 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: ChicagoConservative27; SaveFerris; PROCON

How about my sable hat and my Willard organizer?


12 posted on 11/21/2023 1:00:20 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A good example: COVID vaccinations.


13 posted on 11/21/2023 1:05:45 PM PST by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, half the people are below average.

But, I think it’s a lot more than that.


14 posted on 11/21/2023 1:07:06 PM PST by caver
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> steer clear of counterfeit goods <

Now they tell me, the day after I bought what I thought was a case of Crest toothpaste.


15 posted on 11/21/2023 1:22:35 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Did they add people could just use Temu from the comfort of their homes instead?


16 posted on 11/21/2023 1:29:08 PM PST by Dahoser (I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You mean that Rolecks watch I bought on the street corner might be fake?


17 posted on 11/21/2023 2:19:04 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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“They really really thing we are stupid”

You can fool some of the people all of the time ...


18 posted on 11/21/2023 2:20:28 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: stanne

“Oh they care so much about us …I mean their completely deflated economy

The predictions must be devastating”

Yes. The question is: why now? Those guys (mostly Africans) have been selling their junk on the street for decades.


19 posted on 11/21/2023 2:43:18 PM PST by rxh4n1
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To: rxh4n1

Because of the holiday revenue predictions. When they come through for real. After holiday report Biden is going to be looked at by his corporate supporters.


20 posted on 11/21/2023 2:48:31 PM PST by stanne
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