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family who has sold more than 20,000 fake luxury goods on social media such as Instagram was caught. There was a covert way to call only people to buy and sell them live online.

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[Look, look at the sisters. Oh, please wait for the order on February 4th. Sister.]

A woman sells famous brand handbags and clothes on social media.

Tempting to sell real products cheaply.

[This is genuine or fake?]


[This is a size 55. Top 55.]

All items sold in the chat room where 200 people participated are fake.

The three sisters, including 34-year-old Jung Mo, have sold over 26,000 counterfeit products through live social media broadcasting since June 2018.

We used a secret workshop disguised as a home, and only fake products sold are worth 62.5 billion won in genuine market prices.

On social media live broadcasts, we invited people with a history of fake purchases to avoid crackdowns.

[Won-Jae Lee/Team Leader, Industrial Property Investigation Division, Intellectual Property Office: It was a representative thing to sell for about 200,000 won. People who buy it know that it is a counterfeit product and buy it. In some cases they use it, but most of them have the intention of re-distributing... .]

This is a new case in which a family used SNS to mass-distribute counterfeit products, and the JPO believes that there will be more similar cases.

To make it easier to crack down, we use social media channels that have a closed distribution structure. In fact, reports of fake distribution offline are similar to that of the previous year, while online distribution reports have nearly tripled in half a year.

The Korean Intellectual Property Office's special envoy arrested the two sisters, and her husband and younger sister handed over to the prosecutors' office with the opinion of the imprisonment.

(Video editing: Jeon Min-gyu)