Counterfeit drugs cost the industry $21 billion.
But the risk to lives is incalculable.

Millions of people depend on medication—sometimes life-sustaining—and they trust pharmaceutical companies to produce safe, genuine drugs that work. The worldwide fraudulent drug market is growing at an alarming rate, and no moment in the manufacture of medications is safe.

• Facilities where drugs are produced can be infiltrated using stolen badges.
• Shipping routes can be long, circuitous and open to diversion.
• Clever thieves may disguise counterfeit drugs hidden beneath a thin
  layer of genuine ones.
• Retail outlets may not always use the highest standards to secure
  your products.
• Counterfeiters have a broad arsenal of tricks, from lookalike products to counterfeit records to repackaged/relabeled medications and misidentified placebos.

Phony documentation threatens private lives
and the public trust.

The documents created and issued by national, regional and local governments are among the most important and trusted forms of verification in existence. They often serve as a final authority. From social security cards to passports to licenses, they provide people with access and validate their identity billions of times every year around the world.

But today, these documents—and the people who depend on them—face serious threat from counterfeiters whose tools are often easy-access digital scanners and copiers. It's a type of fraud that not only has the potential to devastate private lives; it can put national security at risk. And compromise the public trust.

• Counterfeiters use phony documents to gain illegal access to secure
  civil facilities
• Identity thieves take people's names and copy documentation to steal funds
• Violent-minded criminals may counterfeit passports and threaten
  homeland security

Counterfeit financial instruments have jumped 500%.
Is your bottom line safe?

The financial services industry has seen a staggering increase in counterfeit money orders, cashier's checks, bonds, bank drafts, and account statements—up more than 500 percent in recent years. Today, check fraud and counterfeit negotiable instruments represent the greatest security problem facing the financial industry.

• Fraudsters are using sophisticated digital scanners and copiers to create look-alike documents
• Your operating costs go up as resources are diverted to tracking down fraud
• Your brand is at risk as customer confidence is shaken

Counterfeit manufacturers take in an estimated $600 billion a year worldwide. What's your brand worth?

When consumers reward you by choosing your brand from an array of choices on a store shelf, a service station or a web search result, you want to live up to their decision. But counterfeiters threaten the trust you earn with customers from the moment your product's life moves beyond the drawing board.

• Nearly any product that can be manufactured can also be illegally imitated, misappropriated, or substituted using your stolen brand.
• Counterfeit products may be placed in fraudulent packaging designed to make people think they're buying your product
• Pirates may divert your shipments resell them on the black market, compromising expiration dates and tarnishing your reputation
• Sophisticated fraudsters may disguise entire palettes of phony merchandise with an exterior layer of genuine products

The counterfeit trade undermines U.S. and international safety standards and threatens your reputation for quality products. From phony parts to forged documentation to pirated packaging and counterfeit labels, the billions of dollars in financial costs are only the beginning.