The raids also shut down a fake PR operation that threatened to post bad reviews of products and services unless it was paid to keep quiet.
Then the film crew revved up its generators and turned on their huge fans to blow fake potato-flake snow down the main street for the sake of consistency.
But some see the interest in fake animal material in fashion as simply the trickle down effect from more of the real thing appearing on runways.
Neville pointed to reviews on the Amazon website in which he claimed Millar used fake identities to laud his own books and put down other writers.
In recognition of the news of Mr Jobs' medical leave, the creator of the spoof Fake Steve Jobs blog has decided to shut it down for the time being.
The blogger known as Fake Steve Jobs claimed his lawyers forced him to shut down.
Facebook regularly torpedoes fake profiles but doesn't disclose how many have been taken down.
It was 1963, and a scandal involving fake inventories of salad oil at a small subsidiary of American Express drove down the price of Amex shares.
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Apparently, the woman had suffered significant injuries, but because nobody could track down the driver (who, if I recall correctly, had given a fake name to the police), they were unable to find him in order to collect damages (if I recall correctly, the victim did not have health insurance).
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Last year, authorities discovered 22 fake Apple Stores in just one city and ordered them to either change their names or shut down.
One could assume that, as you move further down the list of users, the number of inactive accounts drop and the number of fake followers also does.
On Wednesday the AP printed a story based on a fake press release sent from a site designed to mirror the look and feel of a real corporate newsroom, even down to the logo.
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