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Windsor Police Financial Crime Unit have received reports of individuals selling merchandise out of the back of their vans or trucks. The sellers typically hang around the parking lots of big box stores and approach citizens with a sale that is generally to good to be true.
In recent weeks unsuspecting victims have purchased items such as iphones, perfume, boom box speakers, beats headphones, power tools, hand bags and golf clubs. The sellers usually use a sales pitch like: “these items are surplus” – “I came down to Windsor to deliver these items and they put extra on my truck my boss (or company) won’t know, so I am offering the items deeply discounted.”
The sellers are always asking for cash only. The items are not stolen and are typically a counterfeit knock off of the real item. The suspects make a quick sale and are soon out of the area. The victim is left with a substandard product that often doesn’t work. The sale of these items constitutes Trademark infringement offences which are detailed in the Criminal Code of Canada.
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