Entrupy Participating in Unifab’s Museum of Counterfeiting

Unifab (Union des Fabricants) is a global leading association of brands and professional associations dedicated to the fight against counterfeiting. Since 2019, Entrupy has had the honor of participating in  Unifab Lab: a program dedicated to active collaboration between brand owners, solution providers and intellectual property experts about the needs and strategies in the fight […]

COVID and Counterfeiting, A Perfect Pair

With fake goods making up 2.5% of global trade at a cost to economies in the trillions, the sale and manufacturing of counterfeit items was thriving way before COVID-19 struck. Still, recent evidence connects the onset of the pandemic with an even greater proliferation of illicit goods.  Counterfeiting isn’t a product of today’s complex trading […]

Behind The Scenes: Entrupy Data Collection

The Entrupy database currently contains upwards of 15 million unique images of authentic and counterfeit inventory sourced from diverse global sources. This is what we use to train our machine learning algorithms. This robust and proprietary repository of data continues to grow in real time with every verification performed and enables the pinpoint accuracy, speed, […]

Entrupy Spots Superfakes

Once a niche industry serving bargain hunters and rugged individualists, resale is now unquestionably mainstream. According to the 2020 Resale Report from Thred up, online sales of secondhand goods was projected to grow nearly 70 percent between 2019 and 2021. During the same time period, the broader retail sector was projected to shrink 15 percent.  […]

Destruction or Donation: Odd Journey of Confiscated Counterfeit Goods

When you develop a process to authenticate designer handbags, you’re bound to run across quite a few fakes. Our accumulated total could fill several storage units and if you add on the counterfeits discovered by all our partner stores, you’re talking about enough handbags to fill a warehouse and more. While that is quite a […]