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Pokemon and Nintendo have been chasing after card counterfeiters in half a dozen countries. With the aid of local police forces, they have seized over 47 million counterfeit cards. A single raid in China netted 27 million of these.

A word to the wise: don’t counterfeit Pokemon cards. Haven’t you got something better to counterfeit with all that equipment? Sheesh.

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