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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jack D. Young, post: 26607187, member: 93371&quot;]I am working on an article about an apparent new triple threat from the CN counterfeiters...</p><p><br /></p><p>As if the Chinese counterfeit coins in fake PCGS slabs isn’t bad enough, now there appears to be a fake Chinese PCGS website to verify them…</p><p><br /></p><p>A friend alerted me to the following listing on the Bay this past week:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1696022[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1696023[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The listing included these interesting other images:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1696024[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1696025[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The seller had ended the listing based on being told it is a counterfeit, and I started a review to try to determine what was going on here!</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I started with the “PCGS” slab and some quick checks. Using my on-line barcode scanner I checked the front barcode; like many similar bad slabs, the barcode was gibberish and would not scan. Next, I went to the PCGS website to check the noted cert number:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1696026[/ATTACH] </p><p>So, another bad sign, that cert # “was not found”. So, my next step was to try to read the reverse label QR code. And just a note, many of the previous counterfeits we have documented similar to this one had a QR code that read the cert # correctly but noted the genuine PCGS CN site. A previous example read like this:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1696027[/ATTACH] </p><p>And then this one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1696028[/ATTACH] </p><p>Different result than expected- I do NOT recommend readers going to the site shown, but if you did this is what comes up:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1696029[/ATTACH] </p><p>WOW, now we have something apparently new to be concerned about with these…</p><p><br /></p><p>I did notify my contacts at PCGS for a heads-up; they stated they are now aware and reviewing the situation. So now you can verify your CN counterfeit coin in a fake CN &quot;PCGS&quot; slab on their new CN counterfeit website and see the image of the fake- what will they think of next???</p><p><br /></p><p>Best, Jack.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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