Amazon celebrates the first anniversary of its Counterfeit Crimes Unit, created to protect consumers and brands from the presence of counterfeit products and has launched A Roadmap to Curb Products falsified through public-private collaboration on your blog.
The Counterfeiting Crimes Unit (CCU) was created to hunt down counterfeiters and bring them before law enforcement and the courts. Consisting of former prosecutors, former FBI agents, investigators and data analysts, this global team pursues potential offenders around the world and supports law enforcement efforts to bring those who attempt to sell counterfeit products to justice. in our store.
Since its launch, the Counterfeit Crimes Unit has:
- Provided detailed references and supporting material on more than 250 counterfeiters in the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and China.
- Filed civil lawsuits against 64 counterfeiters of products and disrupted the activities of counterfeiters and their supply networks through joint actions around the world against suppliers, logistics providers, influencers, fake invoice providers, activity spoilers and fraudulent website builders.
- Participated in the persecution of counterfeit products, working closely with a large number of brands which include GoPro, Valentino or Salvatore Ferragamo, among others.
At Amazon, we continue to make progress in protecting our store, reducing the rate of claims for counterfeiting from our customers, increasing the number of brands included in our Trademark Registry and putting our technological tools at the service of brands. We have a team of more than 10,000 professionals around the world dedicated to this task. Using a combination of advanced machine learning and teams of investigators, we have developed rigorous proactive controls to protect our store from infringers and their products.
