Fraud (swindling money or property by utilizing fictional, counterfeit, forged, or imitative things or by feigning other persons) forms its threats against public security and network security. Anti-fraud is essentially the identification of a person or thing. In this paper, the authors first propose the concept of idology  a systematic and scientific study of identifications of persons and th...

Product counterfeiting in online platforms is an increasingly serious problem causing estimated losses of billions of dollars every year. The huge number of online shops and offered products call for largely automated approaches to identify likely counterfeits, although identifying counterfeits is very difficult even for humans. The authors propose the adoption of a semiautomatic workflow to in...

The supply chain process is a very critical in the pharmaceutical industry, and through digital drug serialization, we can mitigate risk of counterfeit counter consumers consuming fake drugs. To deliver medicines free counterfeiting, chain's integrity must be preserved. In this article, have focused on how may employ serialization without harming public's health. Even though corporations are wo...

As Alice inserts her card, Bob sends a message to his accomplice, Carol, who is about to pay $2 000 for a expensive diamond ring at honest Dave’s jewellery shop. Carol inserts a counterfeit card into Dave’s terminal. This card is wired to a laptop in her backpack, which communicates with Bob’s laptop using mobile phones. The data to and from Dave’s terminal is relayed to the restaurant’s counte...

The products of graphic design applications, leave behind traces of digital information which can be used during a digital forensic investigation in cases where counterfeit documents have been created. This paper analyzes the digital forensics involved in the creation of counterfeit documents. This is achieved by first recognizing the digital forensic artifacts left behind from the use of graph...

Counterfeiting is a widely spread phenomenon and has seen rapid growth in recent years. In this paper, we adopt the standard vertical differentiation model and allow consumers the choices of purchasing an authentic product, purchasing a counterfeit, or not buying. We focus on how non-deceptive counterfeits, which consumers know at time of purchase that the products are counterfeits with certain...

In our previous research work, an individual recognition system with writing pressure employing neurotemplate of multiplayer feedforward network with sigmoid function has been developed. Although this system was effective on recognition for known registrant, its rejection capability for counterfeit signature was not good enough for commercial application. In this paper, a new activation functio...

This research is designed to study consumers’ purchasing attitudes to counterfeit luxury goods on electronic marketplaces (e-marketplaces). And two research hypotheses are proposed in this research. Based on data analysis of 243 samples, this study explores the dimensions of consumer attitudes (morality and law, accessibility, burden-bearing, function effectiveness, economical efficiency) and m...