{"id":13961,"date":"2019-08-16T05:29:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T05:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02819f3cf0002568"},"modified":"2025-03-03T06:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T06:31:29","slug":"1-million-dollars-in-counterfeit-smart-phones-seized-in-usa-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2019\/08\/16\/1-million-dollars-in-counterfeit-smart-phones-seized-in-usa-from-china\/","title":{"rendered":"$1 MILLION DOLLARS IN COUNTERFEIT SMART PHONES SEIZED IN USA FROM CHINA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers recently seized a combined 4,449 counterfeit LG and ASUS smart phones in Philadelphia. If the phones were authentic they would have had a manufacturer\u2019s suggested retail price of $941,450.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers seized 2,043 counterfeit LG phones and then seized another shipment of 1,926 LG and 480 ASUS counterfeit smartphones on August 9. Each shipment, if authentic, would have had a retail price of $508,707 and $432,743 respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both shipments transited from China through the Dominican Republic to Philadelphia and were manifested as \u201ccell phones used.\u201d The phones will be destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During both seizures, officers inspected the shipment and submitted samples to U.S. Customs Electronics Centers for Excellence and Expertise, the agency\u2019s trade experts, to determine authenticity of trademarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consumer safety and trademark protection is one of Customs and Border Protection\u2019s top trade enforcement priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Importation of counterfeit merchandise can cause significant revenue loss, damage the U.S. economy and threaten the health and safety of the American people.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/.image\/t_share\/MTgwNjAwNTE1NDQzMTcyNzEy\/image-placeholder-title.jpg\" alt=\"Image placeholder title\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200bCasey Durst, is a Director of Field Operations for U.S. Customs said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIn addition to substantial theft suffered by the lawful trademark holders, these counterfeit smartphones may also pose a financial security and health threat to American consumers due to the installation of identity theft software on the phones or the potential for counterfeit batteries to overheat and burn consumers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5,000 fake smart phones made its way to the United States, thankfully the watchful eye of a federal agent stopped them  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[590,481,87,814,840,367,363],"class_list":["post-13961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-apple-products","tag-cell-phone","tag-commercial-shipment","tag-counterfeit","tag-counterfeit-apple-products","tag-designer-products","tag-merchandise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19278,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961\/revisions\/19278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}