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The 5 craziest examples of Chinese counterfeit.
Whenever you hear of counterfeit products, you almost always think of China, it is not entirely undeserved - the country has a history of churning out tons of fake DVDs, electronics, designer clothes and everything you can and can not imagine.
Why Because they're really, really good at it The amount of work and creativity of the Chinese underworld puts in their fake is so damn impressive you have to wonder why they ever need to steal other people's ideas These are people who rigged.
When Chinese counterfeiters decide to set up a series of chain stores knockoff, they mess around t trying to be subtle Discover this strangely familiar retailer in Kunming, China.
All BirdAbroad this Apple Store is 30 percent cheaper than the street because capitalism.
They have the Apple logo, screens and even members of the staff-blue T-shirt clad sport this classic Apple beatific smile.
BirdAbroad Ha, that awkward angle of 45 degrees classic.
The illusion was so perfect that even the employees thought that the place was legit Let's say that again even if it is a complete knockoff, all employees fully believed they were working for Apple.
The Chinese authorities have so far found a total of 22 fake Apple stores operating across the country Hell, at least when someone opened a chain of fake Ikea stores, they had the courtesy to reverse the color scheme .
Reuters The food in their coffee was 40 percent lead, which makes it much more delicious than the real thing.
But both these pale in comparison to the scope of the counterfeiting operation that targeted the Japanese giant NEC Electronics.
In 2004, NEC word that some counterfeit computer products with their logo on them came from China Big surprise, right But when they had someone investigate further, instead of a single rogue plant they discovered a vast operation, multinational counterfeit good, all NEC.
Someone in China actually created an NEC company any parallel with business cards, R D commissions, detailed production plans and even Interests all the NEC brand.
This fake NEC was also a network of more than 50 plants across China and Taiwan production of existing NEC goods and totally new products such as MP3 players and entertainment systems for which the evil twin NEC received royalties Some their products have even been found in large retail stores.
But here's the craziest part True NEC guy admitted that the original wrong were actually a very good quality, which was probably to be said that some guy stole your identity, and then used to gain bigger penis World Championship.
Dinosaur bones are precious, for obvious reasons - in addition to being a finite resource, they're too hard to find, being buried in the deep soil and everything if you could just skip all discover and clean and assemble whole process that painful archeology and go make money of tourists to party Let laborious Chinese counterfeiters to find a way.
In the 1970s, the Chinese market has exploded fossil, with dino unearthed bits and sold all over the country when the supply dried up, someone suggested, why don t we just do a little more.
Paleodirect Really, the difference between a million years, and 10 minutes is the place where you put the decimal point.
And so China is now one of the largest suppliers of false fossils on the planet Why bother Well, here's a fossil fake rat is a calcified fish he sold on eBay for over 3000 .
We do not charge Paleodirect t even buy HDMI cables Chinese retailers.
Currently, there are about 400 billion fake cigarettes being produced in China, enough to provide every US smoker with 460 fake packets Marlboro, Benson Hedges or Newports Surprisingly, about half of all come from a place - Yunxiao, a county in the south of China roughly twice the size of New York City and is home to more than 200 counterfeit cigarettes operations hidden underground and we wanted to say that last literally part of the cigarette factories illegal Yunxiao are actually hidden beneath the surface of the city, nearby mountain caves and under streets, temples and even once a lake.
Publicintegrity Living in a cave, a genius of technology and making things look cool This Chinese guy is Batman.
In one case, some counterfeiters Yunxiao even tried to divert attention from the underground factory concealing their compound as a military base, with 20 guys parading in military uniform and doing daily exercises.
The scope of these operations will rusted rolling machines hidden in old bunkers of multimillion dollar companies The return is amazing up to 20 times their initial investment, and the worst Chinese law can do is hit them gently on the wrist a couple of years in prison or a small fine What's not to love.
Well, how about that fake Chinese cigarettes often contain 80 percent more nicotine and 130 percent more carbon monoxide than the genuine article, as well as eggs occasional insects and human excrement.
Oh, and then there's what we said above - it is actually a chance that you've taken a good, long trail of counterfeit Chinese droppings-sticks Yunxiao cigarette factories export their products to over 60 countries worldwide because it is impossible to spot fake unless you are an industry expert so, 99 percent of all fake cigarettes in the coming US China UK on a three packages is considered a Chinese counterfeiting.
On the positive side, if one puts may contain human excrement on every package, we can probably smoking rates down by as 2 to 3 percent.
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