Know Your Fake Products

Table of Contents
What are fake products?
Fake vs Real
Where to report these products?


Everything looks substantial until you awaken your conscience to know the actual reality. The human mind gets cheated easily. Be ready to be fooled if you are unaware of the particular thing/creature/product you have purchased. That is the reason why people are trapped these days in scams from e-commerce stores.


What are fake products?

Products, a replica of real ones, are called fake products. Simple as it sounds, right? Well, no! It is more troublesome to figure out faked products in actual reality. Scam experts have brought their expertise in making fake products up to a whole new level. The mind, with the most powerful intellect, also gets fooled by these experts within a flash.


Fake vs Real

Everyone cannot figure out the fake product. But one can have a check to prevent themselves from serious fraud. Look out for these signs to determine a fake product-

Packaging – Real brands provide decent packaging. The product has to be properly arranged and perfectly fit inside the box. If the packaging you have received is shabby, inside-the-box contents are misplaced, then probably that is a fake product.

Spellings – Real brands do care a lot about grammar and spelling. If the simple spellings are spelt wrong, then no doubt that the product is fake.

Websites – The websites of fake products are not safe to visit. Their URL will not have a lock sign nor an HTTP. One can check the website from online tools, whether it is fake or real.

Quality – The quality of the fake products will tell that the product is fake in reality. Low-quality plastic, torn fabrics, fake marks/leathers, etc., will confirm that the product is fake.
Trademarks – Look out for various trademarks like descriptive ones or logo ones, like ISI mark, Hallmark, etc. Also, check these trademarks are real or not. Double confirmation is the key to success!

Logos/Texts – Confirm the branded logo and font style from the internet. If the product you got has a different styled logo, text, then probably that is a fake product.

Contact details – The given contact details will not be reachable or will not be answered by anyone. The details may be wrong as provided on the official website of the brand.

QR-codes – The QR-codes will not get scanned from smartphones. As a result, no information about the fake product is known.

Printed information – The printed information will have misaligned fonts, font size and font style. The address of unauthorised service centres is printed to bluff the customer.

Box contents – Check the box contents carefully and match them with the official website. The fraud expert might have taken either of the contents inside the box if any content is missing.


Where to report these products?

Step 1 – Contact the shopping website from where you have purchased the product. Inform them about the problem and wait for their response.
Step 2 – If the e-commerce website does not reply within a particular timeframe, use social media handles to raise the claim. Tag official authorities, like the real brand, trademarks, Voxya, to get help.
Step 3 – File a complaint to the nearest police station. Inform them about the situation and lodge an FIR.
Step 4 – Send a legal notice to the authorities, or file a case in the National Consumer Forum or a Consumer Court. One can consider points 3, 4 and 5 of this article https://voxya.com/stories/5-best-ways-to-resolve-makemytrip-complaints/.
Step 5 – File a complaint at Voxya. It will raise your voice on your behalf and will assist you in every possible way it can.

Never blindly trust a seller or reviews regarding a particular product. Always double-check the details and contents of the products that you are purchasing. Because once your money is gone, it's laborious to get it back.