eBay seller mailing fake slabs in lots to fool Authenticity Guarantee
 

https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1545549

Started with this post:
https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1545451

Seller was submitting cards, cracking them out to get the flips and resumbit, then using the flip with an even worse card or counterfeit to seal in a fake slab.

That scam would have worked way better before there was pics of most graded cards available. Hopefully they got caught before they put thousands of them out there.

& hopefully prosecuted too!

this will never end

You got it.

And no matter your politics, the feather handed approach to criminal activities does nothing to dissuade copycats or new players in the scam business. I don't see that changing.

I just read those threads in detail and from what I can follow, the notches/blocks/tabs on the fake slabs seem to be the giveaway. I need to double check the slabs I own to see if any look out-of-sort.

….unless people stop paying ridiculous amounts of money for cards.

The market is overrun with thieves because the market is overrun with fools willing to buy their wares.

kind of sad actually

785. Counter-refitter
A swindler who is able to seamlessly insert a phony replica or reprint card into an authentic slab to replace the valuable original he has removed.

+1 totally agree. Wherever the money is, that's where the criminal element will be.

Thanks for posting this, John. Why do these things always seem to start in January? It's as if people make a resolution to find a new scam.