SMALL LOAD OF COUNTERFEIT HP PRODUCT FOUND IN NIGERIA

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Date: Tuesday August 9, 2011 08:33:18 am
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    SMALL LOAD OF COUNTERFEIT HP PRODUCT FOUND IN NIGERIA

    Law enforcement agencies in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard (HP) Nigeria have seized no fewer than 6,500 fake HP printing suppliers in a coordinated raid operation carried out recently in the Nigerian market.

    The raid was carried out on an illicit workshop and four connected retailers, seizing a total of 3,600 ready-for-sale laser print cartridge counterfeits, 1,800 fake flat boxes and almost 950 empty laser print cartridges intended for illegal use.

    “HP appreciates the strong cooperation of last four years, resulting in the seizure of more Nigerian law enforcement to help protect our than 30 million units of counterfeit cartridges customers from the inferior standards and potential risk of counterfeits” Sherif Hady, English Africa Channel Manger, Imaging and Printing Group, HP Africa said during the recent launch of the authentication software in Lagos.

    Hardy that, “People who buy counterfeits and other fake merchandise believe mistakenly that they are receiving original products and they deserve the high quality and performance for which they are paying.

    She said that HP Toner cartridge authentication free software validates whether the installed cartridge on an HP printing LaserJet is an original HP toner cartridge or an alternative supply, such as a remanufactured, refilled, cloned or counterfeit product.

    Hardy said that s with the new initiative, if the cartridge is not a genuine HP product, the software solution would show that it is unauthenticated, meaning that it is not a genuine HP product.“We want to ensure that our customers are able to identify counterfeit toner cartridges, since they are less reliable, unsafe and produce poorer results.”“People who buy counterfeit cartridges believe that they are receiving original products, and would now be able to identify them with the help of the HP Toner cartridge authentication software,” Hardy said..

    Over the last four years, hardy said that HP has assisted in the seizure of nearly nine million pieces of fake printing supplies and components in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, conducted nearly 5,000 investigations in almost 90 countries over the last four years, resulting in the seizure of more than 30 million units of counterfeit cartridges and components.

    For Chukwuma Okpaka, HP manager for enterprise server and storage, the anti-counterfeiting programme includes working with the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON).

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