On 27 May 2005 09:02:22 -0700, "Mike Marotta"
wrote:

The basic problem is that all illegal activities are pushed into the
same channels. People who smuggle cigarettes in one direction, smuggle
guns in another. This has little to do with "cigarettes" or "guns" in
themselves. Anyone who buys or sells fake coins is sleeping with dogs
and ultimately will wake up with fleas.

You're again comparing apples and orange seeds. You're again failing
to distinguish buying counterfeit items sold as authentic, which the
article you linked to talked about (knockoff handbags, T-shirts and
other accessories sold on the street and at flea markets), and
counterfeit items sold as counterfeit.

This, again, as to do with the money trail. Where is the money going?
With the former, with counterfeits sold as authentic, the money is
going to those who are doing the cheating. These can be petty crooks
or terrorist cells.

On the other hand, when you buy a counterfeit coin from someone who
had gotten cheated with it by buying it as authentic, who's willing to
sell it for a small sum of money (or even donate it), that money isn't
going to the person or persons who perpetuated the scam. It's going to
the person who was cheated and who wants to play a part in the effort
to educate consumers about counterfeit fraud. Such as transaction
doesn't support terrorism or the scams of terrorists. It does the
exact opposite by helping to prevent the sale of counterfeits as
authentic in the future.

Again.

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