USA-IT partners discuss how shoppers can protect themselves when buying gifts online:

“Think about the following: When little Johnny asks for the newest Xbox for Christmas, and the stores don’t have them, desperate parents will flock to the internet and criminals will be waiting there,” said Hernan Albamonte, USA-IT Coalition.

“The counterfeit products aren’t made with the same quality plastics that the legitimate products are made of. they tend to break,” said Jay Kennedy, Michigan State Center for Counterfeiting and Protection. “What happens when plastic tends to break? The magnets will fall out of them and kids can ingest them.”

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