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Taking Counterfeiting to the Next Level

Here is an article about how NEC had spent thousands of hours investigating a counterfeit ring of NEC products being produced out of Taiwan and China. It was more than just making products and slapping the NEC brand name onto it though. It seems that this group was trying to counterfeit the entire company with its 50 factories, and not only were they making fakes of NEC products, but were also designing their own line of products using the NEC brand name.

With all of the outsourcing to China these days, I guess these pirates took it to the next level by just creating their own business entity where the local business was the outsourced work, and what made this scam so lucrative was that they did not need to have a tech support department since they could just direct everything to NEC's tech support, and they could assume all the benefits that comes with selling the NEC brand name. I wonder if the people involved in this counterfeit operation were originally companies that had done outsourced work for NEC in the past? If that is the case, I wonder if there are other similar cases out there in China these days? Hmm....