A clear and compelling guide to the complex world of counterfeiting
This book provides readers with an overview of the complex subject of counterfeiting in the twenty-first century-not the traditional notion of counterfeiting fake currency, but the counterfeiting of luxury goods, pharmaceuticals, engine parts, etc. Filled with compelling stories such as how Glad trash bags have been faked as part of a scheme to launder drug money, this book offers real-world examples of how counterfeiting can occur and how readers can protect their products and brands from it. Leaving no stone unturned, this valuable resource also provides legal remedies, authentication guidance, and digital measures companies can use to fight the effects of counterfeiting on their bottom line.
David M. Hopkins (Denver, CO) is Director of International Business Programs in the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. Lewis T. Kontnik (Greenwood Village, CO) is principal and founder of Reconnaissance International, the publisher of Authentication News, an international newsletter that covers counterfeiting prevention issues.
Mark Turnage (Denver, CO) is the CEO of Applied Optical Technologies PLC, one of the largest providers of anti-counterfeiting technology to governments and companies worldwide.

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Money may make the world go around, but whose money is it, where did it come from, and whose idea was it? You will get your money's worth in this book full of facts about coins, bills, counterfeiting, and other interesting money topics.

This book overviews and integrates the business and technical issues that pharmaceutical companies need to know in order to combat the major global problem of counterfeit medicines. In addition to discussion of the problems, the author Davison addresses analytical techniques scientists use to detect counterfeits and presents some possible solutions to the threat of counterfeit medical products. Coverage moves from basic overview of the problem, costs / risks to consumers (toxic products, mistrust of drug companies) and business (revenue loss, public trust), government oversight and regulation, authentication strategies (packaging, analytical techniques), product tracking and supply chain, and case studies from around the globe.

"It is not surprising that counterfeiting flourished. The combination of a generally inefficient law enforcement system, the gradual proliferation of colonial issues to copy, and the reliance on private citizens to prosecute criminals made it difficult to capture, prosecute, or punish counterfeiters. Indeed, counterfeiting in American entered a kind of golden age beginning in the early eighteenth century, an age that would last for roughly a hundred and fifty years." —from the Foreword

In the thriving commercial centers of colonial America, merchants could be paid in Spanish doubloons, British pounds, or any of the currencies each colony produced. Such a diversity of monetary forms encouraged some citizens to try their hands at counterfeiting. But the penalties for counterfeiting were harsh. Each colonial government saw it as a serious crime and meted out a variety of punishments, from cropping of ears to the gallows.

Scott examines the prevalence of counterfeiting in colonial America and the difficulties the authorities had in tracking down the offenders. He brings to life the many colorful figures who indulged in this nefarious practice, including organized gangs from Massachusetts to South Carolina, such as the members of the Dover Money Club and numerous women practitioners, including Freelove Lippincott and Mary Peck Butterworth. One of the book's most important themes is that counterfeiting was ubiquitous, transcending socioeconomic, ethnic, and gender lines. Counterfeiters had innumerable ways to practice the art, as Scott shows in illustrative detail. In a final chapter, Scott assesses counterfeiting during the Revolution, when the British government found it an effective means for undermining the fledgling national economy. The book reveals ways to determine whether notes or coins are fake. First published in 1957, Scott's research on early counterfeiting has yet to be superceded.

As much a social history of colonial America as it is a richly peopled narrative of one of the world's oldest crimes, Counterfeiting in America is sure to appeal to scholars, numismatists, and general readers alike.

One of the most remarkable episodes of WWII was the Nazi attempt to forge currency and trigger the economic collapse of the Allies. The counterfeit operation was one of the largest the world has ever seen and lead to the postwar reissue of sterling.

"Stamp Counterfeiting" looks into an intriguing crime that originated in Chicago in the 1890s - the so-called Gilded Age, when charlatans and crooks flocked to the cities to make their fortune by nefarious means. Covering the period from 1894 to 1940, author H.K. Petschel delves into the true crime cases that flourished as criminals of all stripes began to try their hand at counterfeiting stamps, ranging from the lone operator running a printing press in his living room to the organized crime syndicates. A former postal inspector who investigated many of the postal counterfeits in the 1970s, Petschel examines the evolution of the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Postal Inspection Service as they attack stamp and currency counterfeiting. His book is an enthusiastic look at the historical record on the fakery of these "fascinating little bits of paper."

Noisy data appear very naturally in applications where the authentication is based on physical identifiers. This book provides a self-contained overview of the techniques and applications of security based on noisy data. It provides a comprehensive overview of the theory of extracting cryptographic keys from noisy data, and describes applications in the field of biometrics, secure key storage, and anti-counterfeiting.

Deep in the throes of a project to document the stories of Californians who were World War II veterans of the Pacific Theater, a University professor and her research assistant inadvertently stumble onto an al Qaeda counterfeiting operation hidden in the jungles of the Philippines.

While working to verify reports of a counterfeiting operation run by the Japanese during their occupation of the Philippines in the 1940s, the professor uncovers the phenomenal stories of both the Japanese counterfeiting efforts in the Pacific and those of the Nazis in Europe. She tracks the bogus U.S. $100 bill printing plates used during WWII down two trails from their origins in Nazi Germany and Japanese-occupied China finding that both sets ended up in the hands of the Soviet Union.

Secretly holding both sets of plates for over 40 years, in 1989 the Soviets use the plates as bargaining chips with Iran in one last-ditch effort to save their crumbling Union. Iran promptly uses the plates in a prisoner-swap bargain with their archenemy Iraq who then hatches a sinister partnership with the upstart al Qaeda to establish a counterfeiting operation in the Philippines along with an ancillary operation in North Korea.

About to leave the Philippines, the professor and her assistant are taken captive and held for several months by Abu Sayyaf, one of the most brutal al Qaeda-affiliated groups in the world. During captivity they are tortured and forced to witness some of the most horrendous acts of violence ever carried out against humankind before a last desperate rescue attempt in led by the professor’s long-time boyfriend.

Pieced together with real events, this story reveals a strategic approach of al Qaeda as they resurrect an age-old tactic of counterfeiting as a way to undermine the strength of their enemy. Operation Ersatz also portrays the undaunted heroism and determination of those who find themselves in the position of confronting the vile aspirations of al Qaeda.

Deep in the throes of a project to document the stories of Californians who were World War II veterans of the Pacific Theater, a University professor and her research assistant inadvertently stumble onto an al Qaeda counterfeiting operation hidden in the jungles of the Philippines.

While working to verify reports of a counterfeiting operation run by the Japanese during their occupation of the Philippines in the 1940s, the professor uncovers the phenomenal stories of both the Japanese counterfeiting efforts in the Pacific and those of the Nazis in Europe. She tracks the bogus U.S. $100 bill printing plates used during WWII down two trails from their origins in Nazi Germany and Japanese-occupied China finding that both sets ended up in the hands of the Soviet Union.

Secretly holding both sets of plates for over 40 years, in 1989 the Soviets use the plates as bargaining chips with Iran in one last-ditch effort to save their crumbling Union. Iran promptly uses the plates in a prisoner-swap bargain with their archenemy Iraq who then hatches a sinister partnership with the upstart al Qaeda to establish a counterfeiting operation in the Philippines along with an ancillary operation in North Korea.

About to leave the Philippines, the professor and her assistant are taken captive and held for several months by Abu Sayyaf, one of the most brutal al Qaeda-affiliated groups in the world. During captivity they are tortured and forced to witness some of the most horrendous acts of violence ever carried out against humankind before a last desperate rescue attempt in led by the professor’s long-time boyfriend.

Pieced together with real events, this story reveals a strategic approach of al Qaeda as they resurrect an age-old tactic of counterfeiting as a way to undermine the strength of their enemy. Operation Ersatz also portrays the undaunted heroism and determination of those who find themselves in the position of confronting the vile aspirations of al Qaeda.