Counterfeit card fraud had fallen by 31 per cent to 66.1 million over the same period.

The info can then be retrieved to make a counterfeit card.

They then used the information to plunder accounts by making counterfeit cards and using them to withdraw cash from cash machines.

Their work disrupted 421 organised crime networks leading to the recovery of 103,000 compromised card details, 16,500 counterfeit cards and 7,000 fraudulent cheques.

The rise reflects a significant increase in the numbers of counterfeit cards and card details recovered by the unit.

Many customers have taken to carrying laser torches to identify sophisticated counterfeit currency.

There was a 29-per-cent increase in counterfeit currency in 2002.

This has widespread use as a rough screen for counterfeit currency.

Chuck gives five million in counterfeit currency they might be able to use.

Among other activities, they notified the public of counterfeit currency, describing details by which people might recognize forgeries.

It later admitted that it had massively overestimated those numbers but said that counterfeit documents were still a big problem.

In the same way, it also detects counterfeit documents.

This usually involves the use of stolen, forged or counterfeit documents such as a passport or driving licence.

There was another prison sentence when he got involved in a counterfeit money scam.

He had evaded a long prison sentence in 2000 on a technicality after being caught with 1.6 million of counterfeit money.

This allows for detection of counterfeit money because of the significance in difference of fluorescence lifetime when compared to authentic money.

Counterfeit money has also been used as a covert operation by rival nations in an attempt to create inflation and subvert.

This section makes it illegal to forge or counterfeit money.

Cigarettes remain the most frequently seized counterfeit product, accounting for 27 per cent of all discoveries, followed by products such as batteries and air fresheners.

Health scares over local or counterfeit products are common.

Buyers either received counterfeit products or nothing at all.

At one point he wondered if they might be working on counterfeit products - a startling form of labour for a state prison.

It has signed an agreement to train 6,000 government inspectors at 16 main customs points to recognise counterfeit products.

One tout was jailed for six months for selling counterfeit tickets.

Without easy access to legitimate ticket agencies in the host city, many tourists wind up getting burned by counterfeit tickets or by ticket brokers who cannot deliver on their promises.

He tries to explain the counterfeit tickets and how he has to sell her love letter.

Tickets for this game sold for $50 each and there were widespread reports of counterfeit tickets.

Although 28,000 people attended the event, only about half of those were actual invitees, the rest having purchased counterfeit tickets.