The negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have affected all corners of the world, affecting industry and industry, social interactions and school systems of all kinds. While social estating reduces the number of face-to-face interactions we can have, the Internet ensures that social media continues to thrive. However, the destructive effects of coronavirus are not limited to human-to-human transmission, as criminals use this crisis to cover up their illegitimate activities. And like coronavirus itself, those criminal schemes threaten our fitness and safety.
Recent studies conducted through the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have shown what many have been saying since the start of the coronavirus pandemic: counterfeiters are active and need you to be their next victim. The U. S. Department of Justice has not been able to do so. The U. S. has worked to prevent such crimes, but counterfeiters have been agile in their criminal efforts. largely due to their use of social media channels, platforms that offer them a broad degree of anonymity.
I spoke to the lead author of the exam, Dr. Tim Mackey, about the effects of the exam and its implications for the use of social media through counterfeiters and consumers. According to Dr. Mackey, we can’t expect counterfeiters to take this crisis the main path: “If you’re in the counterfeit industry, you can’t miss Covid or you’ll miss a great opportunity because many other people are looking for Covid-like products. “
For consumers, it is to perceive that they will not get data about valid products that direct them to a social media application. As Dr. Mackey says: “No valid distributor will say, “Hey, touch me on WhatsApp. “If you see this, you probably shouldn’t buy that person. “
Using social media to advertise counterfeit products is not necessarily a new trick. In fact, in recent years, several social media influencers have been arrested for actively selling counterfeit products. The expansion of e-commerce and monetary incentives presented through counterfeiters has probably increased. prompted many social media influencers to advertise counterfeit products. The online activity of the consumer. It turns out that no popular social media channel is immune to such disorders and many wonder how to prevent bad actors from taking credit for the site to end up as consumers.
Counterfeiters’ ability to replace their social media methods has been greatly improved through advances in Internet technology, greater Internet access, and a developing transition to e-commerce. -19 pandemic due to the immediate speed of valid responses to the virus. The short history of Covid-19’s forgery attests to this.
According to UCSD researchers, counterfeiters first took the opportunity to sell fake check kits in the early stages of the pandemic. As Dr. Mackey put it, “everyone was check-oriented,” however, “there wasn’t much check capacity at the time. “. ” The increased demand for verification and the lack of valid verification kits represented the first genuine opportunity for counterfeiters in this crisis.
They then switched to the sale of fake remedies and non-public appliance prevention (PPE) products (largely through the use of social media) while others were looking for tactics for themselves against infection.
And now they’ve turned to the street sale of fake vaccines and pharmaceutical treatments. Mackey’s study was conducted at the beginning of the pandemic, so not many vaccines or treatments are mentioned, but since then social media conversations have almost certainly had more problems about Covid vaccines and treatments.
Social media platforms are ideal hubs for counterfeiters, as many other people rely on the data they get from family, friends, and other resources – some valid, some not so much. official data, it will become increasingly difficult for them to separate advertising and valid data from counterfeiters’ messages. In addition, the complex algorithms used across social media platforms seek, in other ways, to optimize user enjoyment and provide the content that they locate Users who actively search for Covid-19 news and data are likely to be more likely to be targeted. counterfeiters due to the relevance of their activities to the products being promoted.
In addition, users with close family, friends, or affiliates who discuss COVID-19 issues would likely locate some of their social media feeds flooded with coronavirus-related ads and content. The importance of social media platforms as a means of staying connected, an exchange and commerce vehicle (valid or illicit), and a position in which data is disseminated during the existing crisis cannot be underestimated, but the importance of remaining alert to the victimization of counterfeiting will also need to be strengthened.
Consumers are well aware of the claims of others claiming to sell Covid-19-related treatments.
“Pharmaceutical corporations cannot market products in the same way that customers’ products are marketed,” says Dr Mackey. If you see something advertised to treat symptoms or illnesses in a way that hasn’t been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, or claims that use the word “cure,” beware, those claims are false. Protecting against Covid means not only being alert in the physical world, but also in the virtual world.
I am a university professor who has been crimes against corporations for over a decade, through my appointments to the School of Criminal Justice and the
I’m a college professor who’s been reading crimes against corporations for over a decade. Through my appointments to the School of Criminal Justice and the Center for Combating Counterfeiting and Product Protection at Michigan State University, I participate in studies, education, and My studies on counterfeiting products explore the fraudulent structures that help counterfeit programs, how counterfeit products are sold on the Internet, and how counterfeits affect consumers and businesses. in criminal justice and an MBA from the University of Cincinnati.