PSA counterfeit cards!!! Beware

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Posted By: PC

Wow. You can tell from the scan of that Cobb card that, in addition to the back being wrong, the PSA logo should be in silver (but maybe that's just the scan). Just gets worse and worse.

Having the PSA cert. nos. public is good and bad, the bad part being that crooks can fake cards, holders and flips, and add a real cert. no.

Another problem is the seemingly infinite number of scans on the net. The counterfeiters can get cert. nos. from those scans (in addition to the time-tested rip-off, where the scan itself is stolen, and the seller sells a card he doesn't have).

Maybe the risk of faked holders is why SGC has begun to engrave the back of their holders? Seems it would be much harder to copy the engraving, as opposed to duplicating the gold foil/label on the back of the old SGC holders.

Also, I haven't looked in a while, but didn't PSA have a holder in the past that had some sort of engraving or raised/textured stamping on the back of the holder? If they did, probably a good time to think about reintroducing that.