Scalper, Bots, and the Fight for Trust High-demand products have always captured attention — from concert tickets to limited-edition sneakers, rare collectibles, and pop culture merchandise. Fans scramble to secure releases, only to face sold-out notices, inflated resale prices, and sometimes outright scams. Where scarcity and hype meet, fraud often [...]

Your Sustainability Claim is a Promise. Can You Prove It? You’ve made the pledges. You’ve launched the campaigns. “Ethically Sourced.” “Carbon Neutral.” “100% Recycled.” On the surface, your brand is green. But beneath, your supply chain is a black box—a tangled web of suppliers, intermediaries, and processes you can’t fully see. [...]

From Your Shelf to Their Screen: Guarding Your Brand in a Digital World Remember the humble barcode? It revolutionized commerce. Now, imagine that same power, supercharged for the digital age. For decades, global product identification and traceability standards such as barcodes and QR codes have safeguarded product identity. Each code built [...]

Danger In Your Medicine Cabinet: The Shocking Truth About Fake Drugs Every year, millions of people unknowingly swallow counterfeit pills — some filled with mercury, arsenic, rat poison, or even cement. This isn't just about lost profits. It's about lives. The Counterfeit Drug Crisis: By the Numbers According to WHO, [...]

When Counterfeits Erode Trust: A Wake-Up Call for Brand Protection Fake products aren't just a nuisance. They’re a threat to your customers, your reputation, and your bottom line. Just recently, trusted heritage brand Eu Yan Sang issued a warning: suspected counterfeit versions of its Vitality Plus product were found in the [...]

In today’s fast-paced digital world, Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to showcase its transformative power, from creating poetry and art to analyzing vast amounts of data with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Yet, in the battle against counterfeiting—an age-old problem that costs brands, consumers, and economies billions annually—the progress is not as clear-cut. [...]

The recent announcement from Macau’s Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) has brought to light a pressing issue: the growing prevalence of forged academic documents. According to the Macau Daily Times, this alarming trend is increasingly affecting educational institutions, with cases of fake certificates undermining the credibility of academic qualifications. The [...]

HONG KONG, 26 November 2024 – i-Sprint Technologies Pte Ltd (i-Sprint) and Nano and Advanced Materials Institute (NAMI) signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU)...

We are excited to announce our partnership with GS1 SG! GS1, the non-profit organization that manages the Universal Product Code (U.P.C.) barcode is collaborating with AccessReal. Combining the globally recognised GS1 standard code with AccessReal’s patented technology, we enable brands to deter counterfeit and combat grey market activities. LEARN MORE [...]

In a recent viral video, Singapore influencer Azula Cinta shared her harrowing experience of contracting a severe eye infection after using counterfeit contact lenses. This alarming incident has highlighted the dangers of fake lenses and underscored the critical importance of ensuring the safety of your eye care products. Ensuring the safety and [...]