Over 400 fake Super Bowl rings with the Lombardi Trophy from China were seized in St. Louis earlier this month.
Border officials seized more than 400 fraudulent Super Bowl championship rings this month and said they were headed to an Illinois residence. its officers working at an express operations hub in St. Louis seized a shipment of 422 Super Bowl rings with an image of the Lombardi Trophy, the trophy awarded to the Super Bowl winning team.
An import specialist examined the rings and determined they were not authentic and infringed on trademarks owned by NFL Properties. The rings, which arrived from China and were headed to a residence in Jerseyville, Illinois, would have been worth an estimated $300,000 if they were real, the agency said. Officers suspected the rings were going to be sold as fake merchandise to"take advantage of sports fans.
“Counterfeit jewelry continues to flood the e-commerce market, and these rings were focused on a select group of sports collectors and their fans,” LaFonda D. Sutton-Burke, director of border protection field operations in Chicago, said in a statement.
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