Fake IPads Flood Market as Scammers Target Top Technology Gift

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-02/fake-ipads-flood-market-as-scammers-target-top-technology-gift.html

On a single day in July, almost 18,000 fakes and clones resembling the iPad and Android devices were available for sale on 23 e-commerce sites, according to MarkMonitor Inc., a San Francisco-based firm that helps companies protect their brands.

The tablets can be illegal -- for instance, if they have a bogus Apple logo -- and often they don’t work well and have no warranty protection, said Fred Felman, chief marketing officer of MarkMonitor. The copycat products and suspected counterfeits found in MarkMonitor’s survey were offered by more than 5,000 sellers, many of them located in China.