Tiktok Labubu Trend exploited criminals with dangerous fake

Willfe and Anagard Thomas

BBC News

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In an anonymous industrial property on the outskirts of London, a line of police vans and empty lorry blocks the normal flow of lunchtime traffic.

They are here to seize the fake Labubu doll. Thousands of them.

After weeks of work, intelligence began at a corner store in South Wales has inspired trading standard officials to a maze of rooms hidden above this retail outlet.

Inside, they guess Global Ticketk Craze,

According to Forbes, the popularity of Labubu Dolls helped Pop Mart double from its total revenue to more than £ 1.33BN ($ 1.81bn).

They are equally desired by children and adults, some told us that they were queued for hours or travel across the country to protect an authentic.

However, the messages viewed by BBC News also show that the scalars can buy hundreds of real products at a time, which can make them useless again, the authorities reported the “flood” of fake fake entering the market.

The Border Force has seized hundreds of thousands from the UK ports in the last few months, meanwhile, officials of the London Industrial Estate believe that the dolls smiling on them from the basket hide a deep secret.

“The head gets closed. The leg will be closed,” Rice Harrys explained from business standards, as one literally separates in her hands.

Six -year -old Harry’s mother says that the fake she bought

In a yellow sports T-shirt, a boy holds four Labubu dolls. A doll like cute gramlin has large shiny eyes and rightground grins. You can't see Harry's head but his chest and meditation is on the doll. There is a brown on the left side, another brown with a black Prada Dungres, next to a pink and then a white one can do a coca cola to the right. — Six -year -old Harry’s mother says that the fake she bought

Mr. Harryz first saw the doll in such a way that after raiding a corner shop about 200 miles in Swanasi, before tracing them back here.

“I have found them in the bags where their eyes are coming down, their hands will be closed.”

The team of Mr. Harris uses a plastic tube, which is shaped like a child’s throat, to measure how dangerous the dangerous objects are – if it fits, it is a ragged danger.

“in [parts] Will all be stuck and then potentially cause knee, “he said.

Officials say thousands of fake jaggery seized from an industrial estate in London

A police van stood on an industrial estate with empty cardboard boxes, once a fake doll, which was piled up in the foreground. — Officials say thousands of fake jaggery seized from an industrial estate in London

Mam-off-one Z said that he “100%” agreed that there was a dissolved threat, after some time he separated after giving him to his son.

The 34 -year -old man from Carfili knew that he had sometimes given the surname of Lafufas for the sixth birthday of his son Harry – because she could not justify the cost of authentic dolls.

But he felt that “all his friends were forced to find one” after his own being “and got a knock-off for more than £ 10 for more than £ 10.

However, within a few hours on Harry’s birthday, Z said that the Kiring stopped, then a part of a leg after a few days.

When Harry was swinging his new toy, the hook came out of the kiring, only to spot her in her mouth for Z.

He said “fortunately” his son became very old so that he could be told about the fall of his toy, but he warned that things could be different for young children.

Officials say there were many fake eyes seized, in which there were eyes in which they were not sticking.

Swanasi Trading Standards with a white drunkard labubu doll empty eye sockets. These big pink eyes sit next to the table. — Officials say there were many fake eyes seized, in which there were eyes in which they were not sticking.

According to the intellectual property office, crowds are often used by criminals to be fake in the market.

Kate Kafeery, deputy director of Intelligence and Law Enforcement, said, “Fake is the second largest source of criminal income worldwide, which is only second for drug smuggling.”

“It is in the interests of these criminal organizations to quickly respond to the trends to maximize it, to get the most money and make the most money that they can possibly do.

“So that’s why we are getting it so early and disregard it completely for security concerns.”

Kate Kaifari from the Intellectual Property Office says that out of drug smuggling, forgery for criminal networks is the second supreme earner.

Intellectual Wealth Office Kate, a woman dressed with a cleverly dressed, smiles on camera, wearing a beige suit, with long brown hair. It is a head and shoulder tablet. — Kate Kaifari from the Intellectual Property Office says that out of drug smuggling, forgery for criminal networks is the second supreme earner.

Ms. Kaifari dismissed the claims that these fakes were made in the same factories or used the same material as “not true” as a real thing, saying that they could “be made from anything”.

These include inferior to dangerous, including toxic plastic, chemicals, and small parts, which are not properly attached, which include “who can then pose a chocating threat”.

Although fake Labubas are still relatively new in the market, investigators know previous cases that include fake toys that can be made with restricted chemicals, some of which are associated with cancer.

Officials say most of the fake products, including Labubs, can be detected from China, Hong Kong or Turkey and people are being warned to look out for pricing or packaging that seems cheap and fierce.

Meg Goldberger bought his Labubus from a rebeller who was ordering hundreds from pop mart at one time

Meg, a young woman who is a young woman with long black hair, holding six colored Labubu dolls in different pastel colors. It is behind teddy bear and other colored soft toys are a shelf, which are slightly staining in meditation. — Meg Goldberger bought his Labubus from a rebeller who was ordering hundreds from pop mart at one time

The 27 -year -old Ticketkar Meg Goldburger is not a stranger to gather in the fake market.

He has about 250 jellys of plush toys, which have new collections of 12 Labubu dolls.

He said, “The more people talked about it and the harder they were, the more I needed them. So now I have 12.”

However, very quickly in her search, Ms. Goldburger said she realized that the obstacles against her in her hunting for real thing were piled up.

Meg exchanged messages with a rebeller, who claimed that they were able to order hundreds of real Labubu dolls from Pop Mart

Screenshot of messages between meg and a reseller. The reseller claims that he recently has a 400 Labubs order in the restock. — Meg exchanged messages with a rebeller, who claimed that they were able to order hundreds of real Labubu dolls from Pop Mart

He said that he spent about 12 hours in several days waiting for the Pop Mart Store Tikok Live Video, where Labubs is issued for sale at a scheduled time, such as Gig Ticket.

“It was sold within a minute. It is now really like two seconds. You can’t find your hand on them,” he said.

Instead, he opted for someone to resume online, but it was also found out why they were selling so fast.

When she asked an eBay rebeller for evidence that she was real in the Big in Energy Labubu series, she was real, Ms. Goldburger was “sent a screenshot that could be like about 200 orders of Labubas”.

“These people will sit at home and somehow hack robot websites and wholesale will buy them, which is why they go so soon. Then they will sell them again.”