Facebook Argentina fined over fake profilesFacebook Argentina was ordered to pay a firefighter one million pesos for failing to comply with an order to delete insulting fake profiles of the plaintiff.
03 December 2014
China museum closed over fake exhibitsA Chinese museum has been ordered to close after thousands of its historical exhibits were found to be fake, state-run media said on Thursday.
23 May 2014
Wine dealer 'lied over fake vintages': US trialRenowned wine collector Rudy Kurniawan forged some of the finest vintages in the world, a series of French experts told his New York fraud trial Thursday.
13 December 2013
Star wine dealer goes on trial for fraud in NYCStar Indonesian-born wine dealer Rudy Kurniawan went on trial in New York Monday, accused of blending ordinary wines into fake vintages in his California kitchen to sell to wealthy collectors.
10 December 2013
US celebrity chef sued for counterfeit wine Celebrity Chicago chef Charlie Trotter was sued Thursday for allegedly selling two collectors a large bottle of wine that was supposedly highly valuable but in fact was a fake.
14 June 2013
Third world is swamped with fake TB drugs: study Africa, India and other developing countries are awash in fake or sub-standard drugs for tuberculosis, fuelling the rise of treatment-resistant strains of TB.
05 February 2013
Hundreds jailed by 'fake' bomb detectors in Thai southImplicated by the wand of a "bogus" bomb detector, Hassan became one of hundreds detained in Thailand's insurgency-racked south because of equipment that experts say is useless.
13 September 2012
New nano-code ups the fight against counterfeiters Scientists on Wednesday reported they had invented an invisible tag using the widely-used "quick response" code to help thwart banknote forgers and criminals who sell bogus drugs or fake vintage wine.
12 September 2012
Canada to deport man after 32 years in country Canada's crackdown on immigration fraud has unwittingly snared a Portuguese man living in the country for 32 years who said Tuesday he is being deported over an administrative gaffe.
Hacker posts fake New York Times editorial The New York Times, which famously insists on the accuracy of its reports, was red faced Sunday after being fooled by a hacker's posting of an online editorial under the name of ex-boss Bill Keller.
30 July 2012
American deserter resurfaces in Sweden, 28 years later An American fugitive who has been missing and "wanted" since he deserted the US Air Force in 1984 has turned up in Sweden where he has been living under a under a new identity for nearly three decades.
20 July 2012
Interpol unveils fake goods scanning app with Google Global policing body Interpol announced Tuesday a pioneering initiative to crack down on trade in fake goods, using an app developed with the help of search giant Google.
19 July 2012
Australians being fleeced by fake investment schemes Australians have been fleeced out of more than Aus$113 million (US$115 million) in the last five years by complex fake investment schemes run by overseas criminal gangs.