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Welcome to a world where nothing is quite as it seems. | 0:00:02 | 0:00:06 | |
Welcome to Fake Britain. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:08 | |
Police! | 0:00:08 | 0:00:10 | |
Get down! Get down! | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
Put your hands behind your back now! | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
Here at the Fake Britain house, things might look familiar | 0:00:24 | 0:00:28 | |
but don't be taken in because this is a house that's filled with fakes. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:33 | |
In this series, I'll be revealing the counterfeits, copies and cons | 0:00:33 | 0:00:37 | |
that are flooding the market, fooling the public, | 0:00:37 | 0:00:40 | |
making money for the criminals and, maybe even, | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
putting you in danger. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
We'll be investigating those fraudsters who are cashing in | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
by selling us something that isn't real | 0:00:48 | 0:00:50 | |
and we'll be showing YOU how to avoid falling for a fake. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:54 | |
Today on Fake Britain, the fake herbal slimming pills | 0:00:55 | 0:00:59 | |
containing a banned pharmaceutical... | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
Go online and buy this stuff, it's like Russian roulette, | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
you're just taking a chance with your health. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:06 | |
..the dog breeder producing pups with fake pedigrees... | 0:01:06 | 0:01:10 | |
She's got some Westie characteristics but she's not a pedigree Westie. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:14 | |
This is such clear evidence of fraud. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
..the fake scooters putting the skids under Britain's kids... | 0:01:17 | 0:01:21 | |
It's worrying that you think you're buying a genuine | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
micro scooter and these products out there are quite dangerous. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:27 | |
..and we take a peek under the bonnet of a counterfeit iPhone. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
If there was a short-circuit, the battery could potentially | 0:01:30 | 0:01:33 | |
set on fire. It could blow up. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:35 | |
The weight loss industry in this country is worth billions | 0:01:35 | 0:01:39 | |
and there are all sorts of ways people try to shed the pounds. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:43 | |
Many turn to herbal remedies, natural slimming products. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
This is one of them but it's a fake. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
Described as only containing botanical ingredients, | 0:01:50 | 0:01:53 | |
you can buy it online but it's unlicensed and shouldn't be sold | 0:01:53 | 0:01:57 | |
here in the UK. That's not all. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
It also contains a banned | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
and potentially dangerous chemical compound. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:05 | |
We're on the way to a raid with Danny Lee-Frost from the MHRA. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:17 | |
It's the group responsible for making sure medicines | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
and medical devices are safe. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
So why the raid? | 0:02:23 | 0:02:25 | |
Well, last month the MHRA carried out a test purchase | 0:02:25 | 0:02:28 | |
of a slimming product being sold online. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:31 | |
The sample was analysed and it was found to contain | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
a huge dose of a banned drug called sibutramine. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:39 | |
Sibutramine was the active chemical compound | 0:02:39 | 0:02:41 | |
in a so-called wonder slimming pill sold in the UK as Reductil. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:46 | |
However, the drug was proved to raise blood pressure | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
and could even induce heart attack in some patients. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:52 | |
It was banned in 2010. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:54 | |
Danny's concerned that buyers who believe they're getting | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
a 100% herbal product are unwittingly getting | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
the banned drug, sibutramine. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
It was withdrawn from the market | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
because of the increased risk of stroke and unforeseen heart attacks. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:08 | |
That was when people were taking it under medical supervision. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:12 | |
Now if anybody's taking this particular product, | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
this Lida Daidaihua product, | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
they're not going to know it's in there, | 0:03:17 | 0:03:19 | |
there's far more active ingredient than there was in the licensed product, | 0:03:19 | 0:03:23 | |
so the risk of unforeseen heart attack | 0:03:23 | 0:03:25 | |
and stroke is much, much, much greater. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
On the raid, the MHRA team are looking to close down | 0:03:30 | 0:03:34 | |
this seller fast. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
Officers have entered the premises with a warrant | 0:03:39 | 0:03:42 | |
and then they'll be conducting an inspection of the premises, | 0:03:42 | 0:03:45 | |
looking for evidence of the product being there | 0:03:45 | 0:03:47 | |
and any evidence relating to sale, or supply. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:51 | |
So if there's any computers, or laptop or paperwork, | 0:03:51 | 0:03:54 | |
they'll be looking at that | 0:03:54 | 0:03:55 | |
and, if necessary, they'll seize it as evidence. | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
Within an hour, the officers think they've found | 0:04:00 | 0:04:02 | |
the suspect's hidden supply. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:04 | |
We've got several hundred boxes of the product that we were looking for | 0:04:16 | 0:04:20 | |
in the rear bedroom of the private house. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:24 | |
As we suspected, it's the same stuff that we purchased off them. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
It contains the active ingredient, sibutramine. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:29 | |
We're just checking to make sure that there's not any more | 0:04:29 | 0:04:32 | |
stashed anywhere else. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:34 | |
They bring several bags of evidence out of the house. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:37 | |
Several thousand packs. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:41 | |
Tens of thousands of tablets and capsules. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:46 | |
In terms of actually at one single address, | 0:04:47 | 0:04:49 | |
this is pretty substantial. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:50 | |
It turns out there may be even more evidence for the team to see. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
The initial inspection of the premises, | 0:05:05 | 0:05:07 | |
and looking at some of the paperwork, | 0:05:07 | 0:05:09 | |
identified that the subject actually rents a lock-up unit. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:13 | |
We don't have a warrant for the lock-up | 0:05:13 | 0:05:16 | |
but we're taking the subject with us | 0:05:16 | 0:05:18 | |
and we're going to ask him to open the lock-up for us. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:20 | |
I wasn't expecting that today. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:27 | |
The lock-up is packed with even more of the fake herbal product. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:31 | |
A lot more. These products appear to have come from China. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:35 | |
As is often the way, the boxes and sachets of pills are sent | 0:05:35 | 0:05:40 | |
separately in the hope of evading detection. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:42 | |
A large box of blistered capsules, | 0:05:42 | 0:05:47 | |
the Lida Daidaihua that we have been looking for all day. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:51 | |
This probably doubles the size of the seizure from this morning. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:55 | |
It's crucial that this shipment doesn't hit the streets. | 0:05:56 | 0:06:00 | |
It's suspected to contain a banned drug in huge uncontrolled doses. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:04 | |
Just to be sure, it goes off to the lab. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
There they'll analyse what's inside. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
The suspect's contact details are taken | 0:06:10 | 0:06:13 | |
and he will be questioned at a later date once officers have | 0:06:13 | 0:06:16 | |
established more facts about the operation. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:19 | |
For Danny, so far it's a good result. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:22 | |
We've seized a lot of fake and unlicensed medicines. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:26 | |
We've taken those off the market | 0:06:26 | 0:06:27 | |
and prevented those being sold to the unsuspecting general public. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
Later, we'll catch up with Danny and find out exactly how much sibutramine was in the fake | 0:06:32 | 0:06:36 | |
supplements and we'll investigate how the fakers selling these pills | 0:06:36 | 0:06:40 | |
have infiltrated the UK's most popular auction websites. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
Every year in the UK, we register a quarter of a million dogs with The Kennel Club | 0:06:49 | 0:06:53 | |
and the proud new owner gets one of these, the certificate that | 0:06:53 | 0:06:57 | |
tells us everything we need to know about our pedigree pooch. | 0:06:57 | 0:07:01 | |
It's all here - name, age, breed, parents | 0:07:01 | 0:07:04 | |
and also crucial information about the likely health of your pup, | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
except many of the details on this Kennel Club certificate | 0:07:07 | 0:07:11 | |
have been faked. Sadly, it's not the only fake out there. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:15 | |
Whether it is a Labrador, a French bulldog, a Great Dane, | 0:07:18 | 0:07:23 | |
a terrier or a Jack Russell, there's an adoring owner out there | 0:07:23 | 0:07:27 | |
for every different type of dog. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
And puppy breeding can be very profitable with the most | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
sought-after breeds changing hands for as much as £3,000. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
But most buyers aren't looking for a future Crufts champion. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:43 | |
They've fallen in love with their dog at first sight and just want | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
to know it's been brought up in good conditions by a responsible breeder. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:51 | |
After doing her research, Sam Brady decided a Labrador would be | 0:07:51 | 0:07:55 | |
the perfect pet for her young family. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:57 | |
Wary of buying a puppy-farmed dog, Sam was determined to | 0:07:57 | 0:08:02 | |
buy from a breeder who registered the puppies with The Kennel Club. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
We found one particular advert that was more in our price range, | 0:08:05 | 0:08:09 | |
Kennel Club registered. They were pedigree, they were deflea'd. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:13 | |
They were wormed. They had four months insurance free. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
Everything looked fine. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
The picture of the puppies was cute. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:20 | |
We phoned the breeder up and she said documents would be ready | 0:08:20 | 0:08:25 | |
when we go to view. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:26 | |
I phoned The Kennel Club first before we went around there | 0:08:26 | 0:08:29 | |
to check that she was who she said she was. | 0:08:29 | 0:08:32 | |
Everything came back fine, The Kennel Club said never had a problem | 0:08:32 | 0:08:36 | |
with her so it should be fine to go and look at her puppies. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:41 | |
So off we went. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:42 | |
They left with a new family member, an adorable Labrador called Alfie. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:48 | |
Unknown to Sam, Gary Young, an investigator with Norfolk Trading Standards, | 0:08:49 | 0:08:54 | |
had been receiving complaints about a breeder called Lisa Walsh. | 0:08:54 | 0:08:59 | |
Gary established that she was renting Greenacres Farm, | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
a large property near Norwich. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:05 | |
Kennel Club registration documents were taking a long time to be | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
sent to the owner. The puppies were being purchased and they were ill. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:12 | |
A number of them had died shortly after being purchased. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:15 | |
As a result of the complaints, | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
we then made a decision to carry out a test purchase. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:21 | |
Posing as customers, Gary and his team arrived at Greenacres. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
After being offered two puppies by Lisa Walsh, | 0:09:26 | 0:09:29 | |
the team then informed her they were, in fact, Trading Standards officers. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:34 | |
The Kennel Club certificate Gary was shown stated | 0:09:46 | 0:09:49 | |
the mother of the puppies was micro-chipped but a quick scan | 0:09:49 | 0:09:52 | |
revealed that the supposed mother of the pups didn't have a chip. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:56 | |
Walsh told Trading Standards she had mixed up the mothers | 0:09:56 | 0:10:00 | |
and the pups with another set of a similar age. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:04 | |
Lisa Walsh's story seemed suspicious but Gary didn't get the chance | 0:10:04 | 0:10:09 | |
to DNA test the pups and establish the true parentage of either litter. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:13 | |
Very unfortunately for Mrs Walsh that night she had a burglary | 0:10:13 | 0:10:18 | |
and it just so happens that the only items that were stolen were | 0:10:18 | 0:10:22 | |
the two black and yellow Labrador mothers and the two litters of pups. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:28 | |
To breed more than five litters a year you need to be inspected | 0:10:28 | 0:10:32 | |
and granted a licence by the local council. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:35 | |
South Norfolk Council granted Walsh | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
a breeders' licence in November 2011. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:40 | |
They told us they made several unannounced inspection visits | 0:10:40 | 0:10:44 | |
and nothing untoward was found. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:46 | |
Once Mrs Walsh had this licence from her local authority | 0:10:46 | 0:10:49 | |
she would register her puppies with The Kennel Club | 0:10:49 | 0:10:52 | |
and then she would receive the registration certificates | 0:10:52 | 0:10:54 | |
most of her customers would demand before they buy a puppy. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:58 | |
The Kennel Club trusts breeders to fill in their paperwork | 0:10:58 | 0:11:01 | |
honestly but Walsh planned to present buyers with legitimate | 0:11:01 | 0:11:05 | |
Kennel Club certificates which didn't match the puppy for sale. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:08 | |
Around this time, Devam Hendry, | 0:11:10 | 0:11:12 | |
a retired university lecturer, was looking to buy a pedigree dog. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:17 | |
I hadn't made a decision and it wasn't terribly important for me | 0:11:17 | 0:11:20 | |
to have a pedigree. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:22 | |
I opened the paper and there was an advert for West Highland terriers, immediately ready. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:28 | |
Devam called the number and was told she should | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
come around as soon as possible as the puppies were selling fast. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:34 | |
When we drove up, my impression was that she was a small-time breeder | 0:11:36 | 0:11:41 | |
on a working farm. Barns at the back, house and driveway to the front | 0:11:41 | 0:11:46 | |
and the puppies were in a cage in the front porch. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:50 | |
She made quite a thing about the fact she was a registered breeder | 0:11:50 | 0:11:54 | |
and therefore it was very, very safe | 0:11:54 | 0:11:57 | |
and the dog would be very, very healthy. | 0:11:57 | 0:11:59 | |
I then thought £400 was fine to pay. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
Devam left Greenacres convinced she'd purchased a West Highland terrier, | 0:12:04 | 0:12:08 | |
which she decided to call Minnie. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:11 | |
She was promised the paperwork would follow immediately, | 0:12:11 | 0:12:14 | |
but it didn't. | 0:12:14 | 0:12:15 | |
I had to phone up a couple of weeks later and said, | 0:12:15 | 0:12:19 | |
"Well, I still haven't got your breeder details." | 0:12:19 | 0:12:23 | |
She made some kind of excuse. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:26 | |
It took about six weeks for them to arrive, | 0:12:26 | 0:12:29 | |
which I then sent off to The Kennel Club. | 0:12:29 | 0:12:31 | |
Later, we'll discover the truth behind Minnie's pedigree | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
and what was really going on in the property rented by Lisa Walsh. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:40 | |
Mini scooters have been a huge hit with kids and with their parents. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:51 | |
It's estimated over a million have been sold in the UK. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:55 | |
As you might expect, this is where the fun stops. | 0:12:55 | 0:12:59 | |
You see, this one is real but this one is fake. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:02 | |
Ones like it are on sale to unsuspecting customers now. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:06 | |
So how do you tell the real from the counterfeit? | 0:13:06 | 0:13:10 | |
And if your child is riding one of these, are they safe? | 0:13:10 | 0:13:13 | |
You'll find a proud owner of one of these mini scooters | 0:13:14 | 0:13:17 | |
at most school gates. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:19 | |
Riding one, well, certainly beats walking to school | 0:13:20 | 0:13:23 | |
and there's one for everyone. They come in all shapes and sizes. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:26 | |
When Kathryn's son, Drew, turned three, she decided the time | 0:13:30 | 0:13:33 | |
had come to get him the scooter he'd spent the last year asking for. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:36 | |
He'd had money for Christmas and he'd like a scooter. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:40 | |
His older cousin had a scooter | 0:13:40 | 0:13:43 | |
and so we decided that we'd use that money and buy him one. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
Kathryn liked the look of the micro scooter. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
It is a well-known brand. | 0:13:49 | 0:13:51 | |
I'd seen a lot of young children, about the same age as my son, | 0:13:51 | 0:13:54 | |
on micro scooters and they seemed to be going really safely | 0:13:54 | 0:13:57 | |
around the parks and managing well on them. | 0:13:57 | 0:14:00 | |
They seemed like a toy that you could have good fun with. | 0:14:00 | 0:14:04 | |
The search started online. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:06 | |
I looked at a few different websites and compared the prices. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:10 | |
Soon Kathryn found exactly what she was looking for. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:14 | |
They seemed to have all the genuine product on there. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:17 | |
They had stock photos. | 0:14:17 | 0:14:19 | |
They had a description which matched the description from | 0:14:19 | 0:14:22 | |
mini micro scooters and the price seemed comparable. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:26 | |
She completed the purchase and a few days later the scooter arrived. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:30 | |
Initially, it looked fine but then a detail caught her eye. | 0:14:30 | 0:14:34 | |
Then I noticed the sticker on the T-bar didn't have the | 0:14:34 | 0:14:37 | |
original wording that a micro scooter's one had. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:40 | |
But it was the state of the instructions that really worried Kathryn. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:44 | |
Within the box, the instructions were photocopied. | 0:14:46 | 0:14:48 | |
They had blocked out the micro scooter's logo and, at this point, | 0:14:48 | 0:14:52 | |
I started to think it might not be the genuine thing. | 0:14:52 | 0:14:55 | |
Having unwittingly bought a counterfeit scooter, | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
Kathryn acted quickly. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:00 | |
She replaced the fake with the genuine item. | 0:15:00 | 0:15:02 | |
When I realised I'd bought a fake scooter, I found out | 0:15:04 | 0:15:07 | |
what my consumer rights were having purchased something online. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:10 | |
I e-mailed the company I'd bought it from to explain that | 0:15:10 | 0:15:13 | |
I would be returning that scooter and I expected a full refund | 0:15:13 | 0:15:16 | |
and also I wanted my postage costs covered. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:18 | |
I then went out to John Lewis and found exactly the same scooter | 0:15:18 | 0:15:23 | |
and it was on offer, so we got it a little bit cheaper. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:26 | |
Unknown to Kathryn, the fakers have been targeting micro scooters for some time. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:32 | |
Ben Gibson is the company's MD. | 0:15:32 | 0:15:35 | |
I think we really came across a fake micro scooter about six or seven years ago. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:40 | |
Much of the company's battle with the fakers is fought online. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:45 | |
Luckily, a lot of the retailers are much more vigilant nowadays | 0:15:45 | 0:15:48 | |
but, I think, it is the online sales that | 0:15:48 | 0:15:50 | |
really drive a lot of this fake scooter activity. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:53 | |
Recently, Ben had drafted in his son to model for some | 0:15:53 | 0:15:57 | |
promotional shots. | 0:15:57 | 0:15:59 | |
Several weeks later, he got a shock when a colleague suggested | 0:15:59 | 0:16:02 | |
he take a look at the latest fake website. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:04 | |
Here I am looking at the web, seeing if there are any copies | 0:16:04 | 0:16:08 | |
of our products and I come across a company selling mini micro fake. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:13 | |
When you click on their advertising, what is very disturbing, | 0:16:13 | 0:16:17 | |
they're using pictures of my own son to advertise their products. | 0:16:17 | 0:16:22 | |
And every time Ben gets the image removed, | 0:16:22 | 0:16:24 | |
it pops up on another website, a few weeks later. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:28 | |
These scooters go through a range of stress tests in order to make | 0:16:28 | 0:16:33 | |
sure they can withstand everything that's going to be thrown at them. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:37 | |
We've got 20kg weights just pounding the decks. | 0:16:37 | 0:16:41 | |
We have automatic steering mechanisms which see how many | 0:16:41 | 0:16:45 | |
turns one can do over the lifetime of the scooter. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:48 | |
We treat them with heat and light. | 0:16:48 | 0:16:50 | |
Really, everything is tested endlessly. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:53 | |
We've seen the real scooter withstand 20kg. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
Can the fake take the strain? | 0:16:58 | 0:17:00 | |
The original has strengthening bars down the side of its deck. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:07 | |
This protects the deck from impact and stops the deck breaking. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:12 | |
In the fake, they have no such bars. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:16 | |
This will break and I would fully expect these edges to the | 0:17:16 | 0:17:20 | |
deck to become sharp and to become hazardous. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:23 | |
These scooters are designed for children up to 20kg. | 0:17:23 | 0:17:27 | |
You'll see that the fake mini micro scooter bends very | 0:17:27 | 0:17:31 | |
significantly as I put a small amount of weight onto it. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:36 | |
The original bends much less. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:39 | |
The quality, therefore, of a deck | 0:17:39 | 0:17:42 | |
is already showing that this scooter is not fit for purpose. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:46 | |
So the build quality clearly differs but these are kids' toys. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:51 | |
What are the safety issues with the products? | 0:17:51 | 0:17:54 | |
Another important aspect of the mini micro are the handle grips. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:58 | |
They broadly look the same but the feel is different. | 0:17:58 | 0:18:01 | |
Handle grips should be grippy. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:02 | |
These are much less grippy than the original handle grips. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:06 | |
It's an outdoor toy, you add a bit of rain to that | 0:18:06 | 0:18:09 | |
and that actually will be very dangerous. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:12 | |
For Ben, the most alarming part of the fake is the brake. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:16 | |
Interesting, the brake looks the same but if you push it down, | 0:18:16 | 0:18:20 | |
it sticks to the back wheel causing skidding | 0:18:20 | 0:18:23 | |
and certainly not a progressive stopping motion that we | 0:18:23 | 0:18:27 | |
would like to see on the original scooters. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:29 | |
That will cause this scooter to skid and the child to be endangered. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:34 | |
And the issue of the brake is made all the worse by the poor | 0:18:34 | 0:18:38 | |
build quality of the wheel. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:40 | |
If you get the original mini micro, I can easily push, | 0:18:40 | 0:18:43 | |
with my little finger, this wheel and that'll move smoothly on itself. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:47 | |
The fake, if I push it gently, you have got a wheel that is sticking. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:51 | |
If you combine that with the sub-standard brake, | 0:18:51 | 0:18:55 | |
you've got a recipe for disaster. | 0:18:55 | 0:18:57 | |
Back in Worcester, Drew is now the happy owner of a genuine micro scooter. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:04 | |
And, looking back, his mum Kathryn is relieved her close call | 0:19:04 | 0:19:07 | |
with the counterfeiters didn't end with a serious accident. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:11 | |
It's worrying that you think you're buying a genuine micro scooter | 0:19:11 | 0:19:14 | |
and actually these products that are out there are quite dangerous | 0:19:14 | 0:19:17 | |
and, potentially, your child could have a serious accident on one of these. | 0:19:17 | 0:19:21 | |
Previously we saw Gary Young from Trading Standards | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
investigating a dog breeder called Lisa Walsh. | 0:19:31 | 0:19:35 | |
Shortly after this test purchase, | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
Gary received a call from one of Walsh's customers, Sam Brady. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:41 | |
Her Labrador, Alfie, has suffered a horrible accident. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:44 | |
One day we were playing with him, chucked a ball up in the air | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
and he jumped and I don't know if he landed funny, or something, | 0:19:48 | 0:19:52 | |
but he let out this almighty yelp | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
and I've never heard him do that before. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:57 | |
I thought, "My gosh." | 0:19:57 | 0:19:59 | |
We took him straight down to the vet's | 0:19:59 | 0:20:00 | |
and we were referred to a specialist. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:02 | |
They X-rayed him again and they showed me his X-rays | 0:20:02 | 0:20:06 | |
and they said his hips were in an awful state. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:09 | |
They said it is severe bilateral hip dysplasia. | 0:20:09 | 0:20:12 | |
His hips weren't even connected. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:14 | |
It was amazing how he could actually even stand up, let alone walk. | 0:20:14 | 0:20:18 | |
The vet said it was probably one of the worst cases he'd seen in his 30 years' practice. | 0:20:18 | 0:20:22 | |
A case this serious is rare because a Labrador with poor hips would | 0:20:24 | 0:20:27 | |
never be used to breed puppies. | 0:20:27 | 0:20:29 | |
After the accident, Sam looked back at The Kennel Club's registration that Walsh provided. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:35 | |
Any certificate for a newborn Labrador should contain | 0:20:35 | 0:20:38 | |
information about the medical history of its parents' hips. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
This is known as a hip score. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:43 | |
Labradors, like many bigger dogs, can suffer from serious | 0:20:43 | 0:20:47 | |
and painful hip conditions | 0:20:47 | 0:20:49 | |
so a certificate will state the hip score of the puppy's mother | 0:20:49 | 0:20:52 | |
and father, giving an owner an indication | 0:20:52 | 0:20:55 | |
of how healthy your puppy is likely to be. | 0:20:55 | 0:20:58 | |
The breeder had told Sam that both of Alfie's parents had good | 0:20:58 | 0:21:02 | |
hip scores but the certificate showed the mum's score was missing. | 0:21:02 | 0:21:06 | |
Sam cared for Alfie through months of painful treatment | 0:21:06 | 0:21:09 | |
and a long convalescence. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:12 | |
There'll be veterinary costs for the rest of Alfie's life. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:15 | |
Total cost so far has been £20,000 on our insurance. | 0:21:16 | 0:21:22 | |
Unfortunately, it's not going to stop there. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:24 | |
He has to have yearly checkups. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:27 | |
That alone costs £400 or £500. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:30 | |
Meanwhile, Devam's paperwork from The Kennel Club had arrived. | 0:21:30 | 0:21:34 | |
Everything was in order. | 0:21:34 | 0:21:35 | |
The certificates confirmed that Minnie was a pedigree West Highland terrier. | 0:21:35 | 0:21:39 | |
The only problem was, she didn't look like one. | 0:21:39 | 0:21:43 | |
People would stop in the street and say, "What is she?" | 0:21:43 | 0:21:47 | |
So when I had a checkup at the vet's, I said to him, | 0:21:47 | 0:21:51 | |
"By the way, what do you think Minnie is because she's on the record at the vet's as a Westie?" | 0:21:51 | 0:21:56 | |
And he said, "Well, she's not, is she?" | 0:21:56 | 0:21:58 | |
It's absolutely obvious with these photographs side-by-side. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:03 | |
On the left-hand side is a typical West Highland terrier puppy | 0:22:03 | 0:22:07 | |
and on the right side my dog, Minnie. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:10 | |
My dog's ears look completely different from the Westie's. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:13 | |
Her ears point down. They're soft, they're floppy, | 0:22:13 | 0:22:17 | |
whereas a Westie's ears are very, very prominently pointed. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:21 | |
And, her tail, she's got a very bushy, prominent tail. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:24 | |
She has got some Westie characteristics | 0:22:24 | 0:22:27 | |
but she's not a pedigree Westie. | 0:22:27 | 0:22:28 | |
This is such clear evidence of fraud. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:32 | |
Clearly, Minnie's real parents weren't the mother and father | 0:22:32 | 0:22:35 | |
stated on her Kennel Club registration document. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:39 | |
I think they're all forged documents. They're worthless. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:43 | |
But Devam and Sam weren't alone in being duped. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:49 | |
Gary had been inundated with calls from angry pedigree pup buyers | 0:22:49 | 0:22:52 | |
who felt they had been deceived by Lisa Walsh. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:55 | |
Soon he'd been granted a warrant to search Walsh's entire property. | 0:22:57 | 0:23:01 | |
There he discovered the true scale of her fakery. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:04 | |
The customers would actually arrive here and then they would go | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
and meet up with Mrs Walsh in the porch area where | 0:23:10 | 0:23:14 | |
they were shown one or two puppies | 0:23:14 | 0:23:17 | |
and the selected adult or so-called mother | 0:23:17 | 0:23:21 | |
and that would be their impression of the house and the sale. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:25 | |
Whilst over in the barn, further down, | 0:23:25 | 0:23:28 | |
there was anything between 20 to 30 puppies being kept in cages together. | 0:23:28 | 0:23:34 | |
We showed some of the footage from that raid to Sam. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
Disgusting. | 0:23:42 | 0:23:44 | |
To know that that was there while we were there makes me feel sick. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:49 | |
Yeah, that's puppy farming, that is. | 0:23:49 | 0:23:51 | |
That's basically what a puppy farm is. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:54 | |
If I had known, I would never have even set foot in that place. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:58 | |
I wanted a Kennel Club pedigree dog but that's not what I got. | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
I kind of try to look at it as we rescued him from that place | 0:24:01 | 0:24:06 | |
and gave him a life that he deserves. | 0:24:06 | 0:24:09 | |
With evidence gathered over the course of a three-year investigation, | 0:24:09 | 0:24:13 | |
Gary was able to prove that Walsh had been creating fake pedigree pup | 0:24:13 | 0:24:17 | |
identities by registering fictional pedigree pups with The Kennel Club. | 0:24:17 | 0:24:22 | |
When the documentation arrived from the Kennel Club for the fictional puppies, | 0:24:22 | 0:24:26 | |
Walsh would assign that paperwork to one of the non-pedigree puppies | 0:24:26 | 0:24:30 | |
she was breeding in the barn. | 0:24:30 | 0:24:32 | |
So the unwitting buyer would see a Kennel Club certificate | 0:24:32 | 0:24:35 | |
stating the puppy was pedigree when it wasn't. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:38 | |
And, in some cases, they also had serious health issues. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:43 | |
So the pedigree status, that many of Walsh's customers were happy | 0:24:43 | 0:24:47 | |
to pay a premium price for, was fake. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:50 | |
Gary also found evidence of fake vaccination certificates. | 0:24:52 | 0:24:56 | |
The mass of documentation Traded Standards had gathered | 0:24:56 | 0:24:58 | |
proved damning in court. | 0:24:58 | 0:25:01 | |
Walsh initially denied participating in a fraudulent business | 0:25:01 | 0:25:05 | |
but faced with a mountain of evidence, | 0:25:05 | 0:25:07 | |
she changed her plea to guilty on the third day of the trial. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:12 | |
In total, Walsh duped her customers out of £170,000. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:16 | |
She received a six-month sentence for fraud | 0:25:16 | 0:25:20 | |
and was banned from breeding dogs for five years. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:23 | |
The last puppy left the barn before Walsh was sent to prison | 0:25:23 | 0:25:27 | |
and Greenacres Farm is now home to a local family. | 0:25:27 | 0:25:29 | |
No puppies have been bred there since Walsh left. | 0:25:29 | 0:25:33 | |
Lisa Walsh was able to fool her customers | 0:25:34 | 0:25:37 | |
because she was licensed as a breeder with the local | 0:25:37 | 0:25:39 | |
authority and was registering her puppies with The Kennel Club. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:43 | |
For Caroline Kisko, secretary at The Kennel Club, | 0:25:44 | 0:25:48 | |
Walsh's actions have violated the trust it extends to breeders. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:52 | |
She was obviously defrauding people, | 0:25:52 | 0:25:56 | |
not just The Kennel Club but many of the authorities. | 0:25:56 | 0:25:59 | |
We, of course, were registering the dogs, | 0:25:59 | 0:26:01 | |
based on the fact that she did have a local authority licence, which | 0:26:01 | 0:26:05 | |
we have to rely on in order to know that somebody is a proper breeder. | 0:26:05 | 0:26:09 | |
We also showed Caroline the photograph of Minnie, | 0:26:09 | 0:26:13 | |
who was sold as a West Highland terrier. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:16 | |
Well, it's certainly not a Westie. It could be any number of other breeds but it's not a Westie, | 0:26:16 | 0:26:21 | |
that's for certain. | 0:26:21 | 0:26:23 | |
In any case, where somebody is worried that their dog | 0:26:23 | 0:26:28 | |
is not the breed that it's said to be, we will always follow up | 0:26:28 | 0:26:32 | |
and we will send out an expert in the breed to go and check and, | 0:26:32 | 0:26:37 | |
if it's not the breed that it's said to be, we will deregister the dog. | 0:26:37 | 0:26:41 | |
Although Walsh was registering her puppies with The Kennel Club, | 0:26:41 | 0:26:44 | |
she wasn't signed up to the organisation's more stringent | 0:26:44 | 0:26:47 | |
assured breeder scheme. | 0:26:47 | 0:26:49 | |
We would much prefer that they actually went to our assured | 0:26:49 | 0:26:52 | |
breeders who are checked by us. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:56 | |
We make sure that way that they can absolutely be | 0:26:56 | 0:26:59 | |
certain of getting a healthy and happy puppy. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:02 | |
The Kennel Club, along with other animal welfare organisations, | 0:27:02 | 0:27:05 | |
is pressing for the introduction of compulsory dog micro-chipping. | 0:27:05 | 0:27:09 | |
The hope is the smarter technology can stop a faker like Walsh | 0:27:09 | 0:27:13 | |
fooling the system again. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:16 | |
Despite being bred and raised in poor conditions, both Alfie | 0:27:17 | 0:27:20 | |
and Minnie are now thriving. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:22 | |
Now he's just a crazy dog. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:26 | |
He's all fixed up. | 0:27:26 | 0:27:28 | |
He had to have both his hips replaced. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:31 | |
Now he's absolutely fantastic, loves life. | 0:27:31 | 0:27:34 | |
He runs, he jumps, he pulls me everywhere. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:38 | |
He loves swimming in the sea. He's just full of life. | 0:27:38 | 0:27:41 | |
It's amazing what the vets have done for him | 0:27:41 | 0:27:45 | |
and given him a second chance at life. Yes, it's all good now. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:49 | |
Minnie is wonderful, there's no way I'd change her. | 0:27:49 | 0:27:52 | |
Another time, I would probably go to a rescue centre. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:55 | |
They look after dogs very, very well and actually check out | 0:27:55 | 0:27:59 | |
the people who are buying dogs, which Mrs Walsh did not at all. | 0:27:59 | 0:28:02 | |
Over 10 million of us have purchased an iPhone, | 0:28:09 | 0:28:12 | |
making this the most popular mobile phone ever sold in the UK. | 0:28:12 | 0:28:17 | |
Even an older model can sell for hundreds of pounds. | 0:28:17 | 0:28:20 | |
Yet, you'd be smart not to part with your cash for one of these | 0:28:20 | 0:28:24 | |
because, despite appearances, they're both fake. | 0:28:24 | 0:28:28 | |
So what's the story behind the counterfeit iPhone | 0:28:28 | 0:28:32 | |
and how can you spot a fake? | 0:28:32 | 0:28:34 | |
This is Shen Xian in southern China, | 0:28:36 | 0:28:38 | |
an industrial powerhouse of a city | 0:28:38 | 0:28:40 | |
and this is where your iPhone, if you've got one, was manufactured. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:44 | |
Over 200,000 are produced every day. | 0:28:44 | 0:28:47 | |
But there's also a flourishing trade in fakery. | 0:28:47 | 0:28:49 | |
We found not just counterfeit iPhones but entire fake | 0:28:51 | 0:28:54 | |
stores copying the logo and look of Apple who manufacture the iPhone. | 0:28:54 | 0:28:59 | |
We were offered fakes in a number of different stores | 0:29:01 | 0:29:03 | |
and after a little haggling... | 0:29:03 | 0:29:05 | |
..we paid the equivalent of just £50 for our counterfeit iPhone. | 0:29:11 | 0:29:15 | |
Peter Richardson is an industry analyst | 0:29:19 | 0:29:22 | |
and a regular visitor to Shen Xian. | 0:29:22 | 0:29:24 | |
We asked him to take a look at a Chinese counterfeit. | 0:29:24 | 0:29:27 | |
This is very typical of our fake iPhone packaging. | 0:29:29 | 0:29:33 | |
It looks superficially quite similar to the real thing. | 0:29:33 | 0:29:36 | |
On the back, you've got the standard legal text | 0:29:36 | 0:29:38 | |
you would find on any Apple product. | 0:29:38 | 0:29:40 | |
A couple of the giveaways, though, it says 64GB memory. | 0:29:40 | 0:29:44 | |
It won't be. It's, at best, 8GB. | 0:29:44 | 0:29:47 | |
No faker is going to put 64GB's worth of memory in one of these things. | 0:29:47 | 0:29:51 | |
The other thing is it says it's designed by Apple in California | 0:29:51 | 0:29:54 | |
and assembled in the USA. | 0:29:54 | 0:29:57 | |
On the genuine product it even says assembled in China. | 0:29:57 | 0:30:00 | |
That's also a bit of a giveaway. | 0:30:00 | 0:30:02 | |
Surprisingly, Peter believes most Chinese customers buy these phones | 0:30:02 | 0:30:06 | |
knowing their fakes. | 0:30:06 | 0:30:08 | |
The Chinese like to be seen with something that's premium, | 0:30:08 | 0:30:11 | |
but not everyone can afford an iPhone. | 0:30:11 | 0:30:13 | |
And they know they're buying a fake, | 0:30:13 | 0:30:15 | |
but it's almost like a bit of fun. | 0:30:15 | 0:30:17 | |
There's a term for it in Chinese - shanzhai ji - | 0:30:17 | 0:30:19 | |
which roughly translates as bandit cellphone, | 0:30:19 | 0:30:21 | |
and they happily buy these and replace them fairly frequently, | 0:30:21 | 0:30:24 | |
because they know the quality isn't very good, | 0:30:24 | 0:30:26 | |
but they don't pay very much for them, so they don't really care. | 0:30:26 | 0:30:29 | |
But what's presented to the Chinese as fake, | 0:30:29 | 0:30:32 | |
is being sold to the British customer as real, | 0:30:32 | 0:30:35 | |
and many of these sales are taking place in the booming market | 0:30:35 | 0:30:37 | |
for unwanted iPhone upgrades. | 0:30:37 | 0:30:40 | |
There's a rich market for second-hand mobile phones, | 0:30:40 | 0:30:43 | |
and iPhones, in particular. | 0:30:43 | 0:30:45 | |
People really want to have one, | 0:30:45 | 0:30:47 | |
and if you can't afford the brand-new product, | 0:30:47 | 0:30:49 | |
there's plenty of second-hand products out there on the market. | 0:30:49 | 0:30:52 | |
But that's the potential area where a fake could be slipped in. | 0:30:52 | 0:30:56 | |
So, if you're using an auction site to buy a product, | 0:30:56 | 0:30:58 | |
be careful you're not buying a fake product. | 0:30:58 | 0:31:01 | |
Trading Standards teams across the country | 0:31:01 | 0:31:03 | |
have discovered the fake phones when investigating suspected sellers | 0:31:03 | 0:31:06 | |
of counterfeit goods. | 0:31:06 | 0:31:08 | |
So, how convincing are these Chinese fakes? | 0:31:10 | 0:31:12 | |
How much do you reckon it would be worth new? | 0:31:12 | 0:31:15 | |
£500. | 0:31:15 | 0:31:17 | |
I would've thought if you were buying it from the Apple shop, | 0:31:17 | 0:31:19 | |
it would've been sort of £250, something like that. | 0:31:19 | 0:31:22 | |
300 quid? | 0:31:22 | 0:31:23 | |
What would you say if I told you it was a fake? | 0:31:23 | 0:31:25 | |
Oh, God, er... | 0:31:25 | 0:31:27 | |
I wouldn't believe you. It feels exactly like mine does in my pocket now, | 0:31:27 | 0:31:30 | |
apart from it's got a cover on it. | 0:31:30 | 0:31:32 | |
I wouldn't know that was a fake. | 0:31:32 | 0:31:33 | |
I'd say it was a good fake. | 0:31:33 | 0:31:35 | |
We asked Phone Heroes, | 0:31:38 | 0:31:39 | |
a London-based iPhone repair specialist to take a closer look. | 0:31:39 | 0:31:43 | |
All right, so let's have a look at the fake iPhone. | 0:31:45 | 0:31:49 | |
Erm...first off, looking at it, | 0:31:49 | 0:31:52 | |
it comes with a screen protector on it. | 0:31:52 | 0:31:54 | |
Genuine Apple iPhones don't come with screen protectors on them. | 0:31:54 | 0:31:57 | |
From a glance, it doesn't look too bad. | 0:31:57 | 0:32:00 | |
Looking closely at it, | 0:32:00 | 0:32:01 | |
you can actually feel that it's made out of plastic. | 0:32:01 | 0:32:04 | |
Here we have the genuine Apple iPhone 5S | 0:32:04 | 0:32:06 | |
and you can feel that the back of it is cold. | 0:32:06 | 0:32:08 | |
It's aluminium. | 0:32:08 | 0:32:09 | |
So, what's going on under the bonnet | 0:32:09 | 0:32:12 | |
of both the real and the fake iPhone? | 0:32:12 | 0:32:15 | |
Here you can see when you open the genuine Apple iPhone 5S | 0:32:15 | 0:32:18 | |
that the screen is a completely separate unit from a phone, | 0:32:18 | 0:32:21 | |
where you have speakers and home buttons. | 0:32:21 | 0:32:24 | |
Where the fake one... is the phone itself. | 0:32:24 | 0:32:27 | |
They've literally bodged on the battery, the motherboard, the speakers, | 0:32:27 | 0:32:31 | |
all onto the back of the screen. | 0:32:31 | 0:32:33 | |
And it's a completely different build to the original one. | 0:32:33 | 0:32:37 | |
Compared with the iPhone, | 0:32:37 | 0:32:39 | |
the various parts of the counterfeit | 0:32:39 | 0:32:41 | |
are crudely thrown together, | 0:32:41 | 0:32:42 | |
and components are typical of those found in much cheaper models. | 0:32:42 | 0:32:46 | |
But that's not all - this fake is dangerous. | 0:32:48 | 0:32:53 | |
You can tell by the solder quality. | 0:32:53 | 0:32:54 | |
The fake iPhone, the way they have actually soldered it | 0:32:54 | 0:32:57 | |
is poor soldering. | 0:32:57 | 0:32:58 | |
You can see here, you have your positives so close to your negatives, | 0:32:58 | 0:33:01 | |
that the actual cable is millimetres away. | 0:33:01 | 0:33:04 | |
So that can easily cause a short circuit, | 0:33:04 | 0:33:07 | |
straight from the battery. | 0:33:07 | 0:33:08 | |
There's nothing in there to break that circuit, if those two connect. | 0:33:08 | 0:33:12 | |
If there was a short circuit, the battery could potentially | 0:33:12 | 0:33:15 | |
set on fire, it could blow up. | 0:33:15 | 0:33:16 | |
It could do anything, really. | 0:33:16 | 0:33:18 | |
Things like that make it really unsafe, | 0:33:18 | 0:33:20 | |
and clearly it hasn't been tested. | 0:33:20 | 0:33:21 | |
Because if it had been tested, that wouldn't make it out of the factory. | 0:33:21 | 0:33:25 | |
It's clearly just being pumped out as a fake mobile. | 0:33:25 | 0:33:27 | |
So how can YOU check to see if your iPhone is a fake? | 0:33:30 | 0:33:34 | |
So we've got two phones here - | 0:33:35 | 0:33:36 | |
fake iPhone, the white one... | 0:33:36 | 0:33:38 | |
and a genuine iPhone 5S. | 0:33:38 | 0:33:40 | |
One of the things that make smartphones so popular | 0:33:40 | 0:33:44 | |
is that you can get apps to help make the phone more useful. | 0:33:44 | 0:33:47 | |
And for Apple users they all come from App Store. | 0:33:47 | 0:33:51 | |
Both products have the icon for the Apple App Store, | 0:33:51 | 0:33:55 | |
but, interestingly, the fake product also has an icon | 0:33:55 | 0:33:59 | |
for the Google Play store | 0:33:59 | 0:34:00 | |
which, really, indicates that this is an Android product, | 0:34:00 | 0:34:04 | |
not an Apple IOS product. | 0:34:04 | 0:34:07 | |
This is interesting. | 0:34:08 | 0:34:10 | |
Lots of smartphones are powered by an operating system | 0:34:10 | 0:34:13 | |
called Android, but iPhones aren't. | 0:34:13 | 0:34:16 | |
Turn on this fake iPhone and you don't see the Apple logo, | 0:34:17 | 0:34:20 | |
you get the word Android. | 0:34:20 | 0:34:22 | |
Android users get their apps through the Google Play store, | 0:34:22 | 0:34:26 | |
not through App Store. | 0:34:26 | 0:34:28 | |
It's one or the other, chalk or cheese, | 0:34:28 | 0:34:30 | |
so does the counterfeit App Store work? | 0:34:30 | 0:34:33 | |
If we go to the app stores on both products, | 0:34:35 | 0:34:39 | |
on the genuine product, you get the normal landing screen | 0:34:39 | 0:34:43 | |
for the Apple App Store, | 0:34:43 | 0:34:44 | |
but what we come to on the fake product | 0:34:44 | 0:34:47 | |
is actually a fake App Store. | 0:34:47 | 0:34:50 | |
Peter will try to download the app Subway Surfers, | 0:34:50 | 0:34:54 | |
a very popular game. | 0:34:54 | 0:34:56 | |
So once we launch Subway Surfers - | 0:34:56 | 0:34:59 | |
interestingly, the description is in Chinese, which... | 0:34:59 | 0:35:03 | |
You probably wouldn't find with the genuine product. | 0:35:03 | 0:35:05 | |
And another giveaway is that the size of the game on the fake product | 0:35:05 | 0:35:09 | |
is 26 megabytes, | 0:35:09 | 0:35:10 | |
while on the genuine game it's over 50 megabytes. | 0:35:10 | 0:35:13 | |
We can try and download the game, | 0:35:13 | 0:35:15 | |
but it doesn't load properly | 0:35:15 | 0:35:17 | |
and actually crashes when we try and play the game. | 0:35:17 | 0:35:20 | |
We try again and again and again. | 0:35:20 | 0:35:23 | |
But the fake App Store crashes every time. | 0:35:23 | 0:35:26 | |
But if you're buying an iPhone outside of the Apple Store | 0:35:26 | 0:35:30 | |
or a licensed reseller, | 0:35:30 | 0:35:32 | |
what should you be looking out for? | 0:35:32 | 0:35:34 | |
Really, it's good to get your hand on a product, use it, | 0:35:34 | 0:35:37 | |
assure yourself that it is genuine before you part with your money. | 0:35:37 | 0:35:40 | |
Earlier, we were with Danny Lee-Frost | 0:35:46 | 0:35:49 | |
as an enforcement team from the MHRA raided the house of a suspect. | 0:35:49 | 0:35:53 | |
He was believed to be selling a slimming drug billed as 100% herbal | 0:35:53 | 0:35:57 | |
but which, in fact, contains a dangerous pharmaceutical. | 0:35:57 | 0:36:01 | |
The haul from the raid has been brought here | 0:36:01 | 0:36:04 | |
to the MHRA's evidence store. | 0:36:04 | 0:36:05 | |
This is where the agency keeps the huge quantities | 0:36:05 | 0:36:09 | |
of illegal and counterfeit drugs they've seized. | 0:36:09 | 0:36:12 | |
Before carrying out the raid, the MHRA made a test purchase, | 0:36:12 | 0:36:15 | |
which confirmed the presence of a banned drug called sibutramine, | 0:36:15 | 0:36:19 | |
but that could've been a one-off. | 0:36:19 | 0:36:21 | |
So Danny had tests run on a number of samples from the seizure. | 0:36:21 | 0:36:25 | |
When it was analysed, | 0:36:25 | 0:36:27 | |
it was found to contain 18 milligrams of sibutramine. | 0:36:27 | 0:36:30 | |
This stuff has got it in there, it's not on the label, | 0:36:30 | 0:36:32 | |
it's not mentioned anywhere on the pack - | 0:36:32 | 0:36:35 | |
in fact, the pack says it's safe and 100% natural. | 0:36:35 | 0:36:38 | |
Here in the UK, sibutramine was sold as a miracle drug called Reductil. | 0:36:38 | 0:36:44 | |
It was banned in 2010. | 0:36:44 | 0:36:46 | |
The 18 milligrams of sibutramine | 0:36:46 | 0:36:48 | |
the MHRA have found in the fake herbal product, | 0:36:48 | 0:36:52 | |
is nearly twice the standard dose | 0:36:52 | 0:36:53 | |
that would've been found in Reductil when it was legally available. | 0:36:53 | 0:36:56 | |
So, anyone taking this product is effectively increasing | 0:36:56 | 0:36:59 | |
the risk of a side-effect. | 0:36:59 | 0:37:02 | |
Like the vast majority of counterfeit drugs here, | 0:37:02 | 0:37:05 | |
they were sold online. | 0:37:05 | 0:37:07 | |
We don't tend to see it in retail outlets. | 0:37:09 | 0:37:11 | |
There's a lot more due diligence in those types of marketplaces. | 0:37:11 | 0:37:15 | |
A retailer will do a lot more checks on their supplier | 0:37:15 | 0:37:18 | |
before they buy this stuff, | 0:37:18 | 0:37:19 | |
but you go online - all you know about the seller is | 0:37:19 | 0:37:22 | |
he's got a glossy website. | 0:37:22 | 0:37:24 | |
So when you go online and buy this stuff, it's like Russian roulette, | 0:37:24 | 0:37:27 | |
you're just taking a chance with your health. | 0:37:27 | 0:37:29 | |
Sibutramine was proscribed medicine, | 0:37:30 | 0:37:33 | |
and, as such, no GP would have issued it to any patient | 0:37:33 | 0:37:36 | |
suffering from a cardiovascular condition. | 0:37:36 | 0:37:40 | |
Of course, the fakers don't care who they sell to. | 0:37:40 | 0:37:43 | |
Moira Cosgrove is an experienced nutritionist. | 0:37:44 | 0:37:47 | |
She understands why people order products and take on those risks. | 0:37:47 | 0:37:52 | |
If someone is embarrassed about their weight | 0:37:52 | 0:37:55 | |
and wants to try and do something | 0:37:55 | 0:37:58 | |
without discussing it with anybody else, | 0:37:58 | 0:38:01 | |
this offers the ideal opportunity | 0:38:01 | 0:38:03 | |
for them to purchase a product like this. | 0:38:03 | 0:38:06 | |
The risk is that they may be buying something unwittingly that, | 0:38:06 | 0:38:11 | |
because of their medical history, | 0:38:11 | 0:38:13 | |
could actually be dangerous for them. | 0:38:13 | 0:38:16 | |
Danny's seen a rise in slimming pills masquerading as herbal products. | 0:38:18 | 0:38:22 | |
We're seeing more of the types of products that are marketed as natural | 0:38:22 | 0:38:26 | |
where the sibutramine is hidden. | 0:38:26 | 0:38:28 | |
The fake herbal product the MHRA seize | 0:38:28 | 0:38:31 | |
was sold through the seller's own website, | 0:38:31 | 0:38:33 | |
but are versions of the product being sold on eBay - | 0:38:33 | 0:38:37 | |
the UK's most popular auction website? | 0:38:37 | 0:38:39 | |
We test-purchase two products from two different UK-based eBay sellers. | 0:38:39 | 0:38:44 | |
Both products were sold as 100% herbal. | 0:38:44 | 0:38:47 | |
Our packages arrived over the course of the following week. | 0:38:48 | 0:38:51 | |
Professor Simon Gibbons heads up UCL's School of Pharmacy. | 0:38:53 | 0:38:56 | |
He's an internationally recognised specialist | 0:38:56 | 0:38:59 | |
in the study of herbal medicines. | 0:38:59 | 0:39:01 | |
He wasn't surprised to learn that the fakers are fraudulently | 0:39:02 | 0:39:04 | |
claiming their slimming pills are 100% herbal. | 0:39:04 | 0:39:08 | |
We see adulteration with herbal medicinal products | 0:39:09 | 0:39:12 | |
in many different areas - | 0:39:12 | 0:39:13 | |
not only in slimming aids, but also anti-inflammatory drugs, for example. | 0:39:13 | 0:39:18 | |
There are many, many examples of products | 0:39:18 | 0:39:21 | |
which are being marketed predominantly as a single herb | 0:39:21 | 0:39:24 | |
or a mixture of herbs | 0:39:24 | 0:39:25 | |
and they actually contain pharmaceutical compounds. | 0:39:25 | 0:39:28 | |
We asked Professor Gibbons and his team | 0:39:28 | 0:39:31 | |
to establish if either of the products we purchased | 0:39:31 | 0:39:34 | |
contained sibutramine. | 0:39:34 | 0:39:35 | |
Both of them contained quite large concentrations of that compound present - | 0:39:37 | 0:39:41 | |
approximately 40 to 50 milligrams of sibutramine. | 0:39:41 | 0:39:44 | |
So our batch of the fake herbal drug contains even more sibutramine | 0:39:45 | 0:39:49 | |
than the pills seized by the MHRA. | 0:39:49 | 0:39:51 | |
The side-effects from sibutramine are well-known, | 0:39:52 | 0:39:55 | |
including increased heart rate and blood pressure in some patients, | 0:39:55 | 0:39:58 | |
and a greater risk of heart attack and stroke | 0:39:58 | 0:40:00 | |
in those with cardiovascular disease. | 0:40:00 | 0:40:03 | |
That's why it was banned. | 0:40:03 | 0:40:05 | |
What's less well understood is the psychological impact | 0:40:05 | 0:40:08 | |
sibutramine can have when taken in extreme doses. | 0:40:08 | 0:40:11 | |
Compounds like sibutramine in high dose | 0:40:13 | 0:40:15 | |
can release a large amount of serotonin | 0:40:15 | 0:40:18 | |
which will affect mood, | 0:40:18 | 0:40:19 | |
it can make people low, can make people depressed. | 0:40:19 | 0:40:22 | |
It needs proper supervision, you cannot have these sorts of compounds | 0:40:22 | 0:40:26 | |
in these preparations without some sort of control. | 0:40:26 | 0:40:29 | |
Maria Konski lost her best friend 10 years ago. | 0:40:31 | 0:40:35 | |
Her name was Lydia Landans | 0:40:35 | 0:40:37 | |
and she committed suicide weeks after buying a pack | 0:40:37 | 0:40:40 | |
of the fake supplement. | 0:40:40 | 0:40:42 | |
Maria's friend had no previous history of mental illness | 0:40:43 | 0:40:47 | |
and tests of the remains of the product confirmed | 0:40:47 | 0:40:50 | |
the presence of sibutramine. | 0:40:50 | 0:40:52 | |
Maria knew Lydia better than anyone. | 0:40:52 | 0:40:55 | |
Friends since childhood, they moved to London 10 years ago, | 0:40:55 | 0:40:59 | |
but shortly before her tragic death, | 0:40:59 | 0:41:01 | |
friends and family noticed a sudden change in Lydia's behaviour. | 0:41:01 | 0:41:04 | |
She had a bit of paranoia. | 0:41:06 | 0:41:08 | |
She said things like, "There's something dark behind me." | 0:41:08 | 0:41:12 | |
After her death, Maria set out to discover | 0:41:14 | 0:41:17 | |
how common these side-effects are. | 0:41:17 | 0:41:19 | |
The more I looked on forums, | 0:41:20 | 0:41:22 | |
the more confirmation I was getting. | 0:41:22 | 0:41:25 | |
There was a woman who said that she did experience suicidal thoughts | 0:41:25 | 0:41:31 | |
and she nearly committed suicide, | 0:41:31 | 0:41:33 | |
but, luckily, she managed to stop. | 0:41:33 | 0:41:36 | |
Frustrated by the ongoing trade in sibutramine-laced products, | 0:41:36 | 0:41:41 | |
Maria went online to warn others of the dangers. | 0:41:41 | 0:41:44 | |
Her efforts generated a mixed response. | 0:41:44 | 0:41:46 | |
There are people who are interested who would ask questions. | 0:41:48 | 0:41:51 | |
The sellers would usually remove the video immediately, | 0:41:51 | 0:41:56 | |
ban my account and I'd have to create a new one. | 0:41:56 | 0:41:59 | |
These products aren't just sold on the internet, | 0:42:01 | 0:42:04 | |
they're marketed there, and this aggressive marketing | 0:42:04 | 0:42:07 | |
is a cause for concern for nutritionist Moyra Cosgrove. | 0:42:07 | 0:42:11 | |
There's no doubt that the reviews of a product | 0:42:11 | 0:42:14 | |
like this are very powerful. | 0:42:14 | 0:42:17 | |
Whether they're genuine or not, of course, is another matter entirely. | 0:42:17 | 0:42:22 | |
But this will have an effect on people's buying behaviour, | 0:42:22 | 0:42:25 | |
and lead them to make the purchase. | 0:42:25 | 0:42:28 | |
Maria plans to continue posting | 0:42:29 | 0:42:32 | |
whenever she sees anyone pushing the fake product. | 0:42:32 | 0:42:34 | |
I don't want anything like that to happen to anyone else, | 0:42:36 | 0:42:39 | |
and the worst thing is that someone | 0:42:39 | 0:42:41 | |
can be going through the same thing | 0:42:41 | 0:42:43 | |
and their family wouldn't even know what was going on. | 0:42:43 | 0:42:46 | |
The details of the seller of the fake herbal drug we purchased | 0:42:48 | 0:42:51 | |
have been passed to eBay, | 0:42:51 | 0:42:53 | |
while the seller of the drug raided by the MHRA has received a caution, | 0:42:53 | 0:42:57 | |
and his product with a street value of over £50,000 | 0:42:57 | 0:43:01 | |
has been destroyed. | 0:43:01 | 0:43:02 | |
That's all from Fake Britain. Goodbye. | 0:43:07 | 0:43:10 |