Product Counterfeits in the Online Environment: An Empirical Assessment of Victimization and Reporting Characteristics
Jeremy Wilson, Justin Heinonen and Thomas Holt, 2012 The growing pace of e-commerce has facilitated the sale and distribution of counterfeit products. One reason may be that consumers cannot fully validate goods for sale online, thus creating tremendous opportunities for fraud. Despite the growth of online product counterfeiting specifically, little research has examined this crime …