Alastair Gray: How fake handbags fund terrorism and organized crime
Alastair Gray: Cómo los bolsos falsificados financian el terrorismo y el crimen organizado
Tommy Hilfiger's Alastair Gray polices the internet in search of counterfeits, rip-offs and brand abuse. Full bio
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from central London on the Tube
del centro de Londres en el metro
in the east of the city
en el este de la ciudad
2,000 luxury polo shirts for sale.
2000 camisetas polo para vender.
just like the cliche scene
como en las escenas
and he was waiting for me
with four padlocks down the side.
cerrados con cuatro candados.
Did I have a business card?
¿Tenía tarjeta de presentación?
going to arrive?
to get what I needed
para obtener lo que necesitaba
to become suspicious,
is that I'm a counterfeit investigator,
de investigador de productos falsificados.
of checking over the product
de chequeo al producto
of counterfeit production --
de producción falsificada
or how the packaging
o envolturas
stamped all over the front of it --
en la parte más visible...
on walking down to the street with me
en ir conmigo hacia la calle
is always the same:
es siempre lo mismo:
if they've actually bought your story,
se tragaron el cuento
to see who you really are.
para saber quién soy realmente.
when you turn the first corner
la primera esquina,
and they're not standing there.
polo shirt seller certainly didn't realize
nuestro falsificador
would result in a dawn raid on his house,
supondría una operación en su casa
by eight men on his doorstep
lo sacarían de la cama
that he was just a pawn
que él es solo un peón
spanning three continents,
que se esparce por tres continentes
that I'd started to pull on
que empecé a hilar
is a victimless crime?
un crimen sin víctimas?
they make enough money,
hacen mucho dinero
of advertising, right?
es publicidad gratuita.
is not that big a deal.
no es grave.
that that is just not true.
que eso no es verdad.
about those fake handbags
en esos bolsos falsificados
have been stitched together
away from her family,
por traficantes de menores
owner doesn't realize
del taller de autos no ve
of an organized crime gang
al crimen organizado
are horrible to think about,
si se piensa en ellas,
is even funding terrorism.
está financiando el terrorismo.
to fund attacks,
para financiar sus ataques.
that try to make victims of all of us.
de los que podemos ser víctimas.
escorpiones vivos
that it would sting you on the way home,
de camino a casa,
un bolso falsificado,
would enable someone to buy bullets
serían para comprar balas
innocent people six months later?
seis meses más tarde?
clinging on to it a bit --
que todavía estoy cerca...
while on holiday in the Canary Islands.
en las Islas Canarias.
maybe you didn't think twice about it,
pensado dos veces sobre ello
a un anuncio de 20 palabras
property investigator.
propiedad intelectual.
and some international travel."
y algunos viajes".
my first of many aliases,
el primero de muchos alias
I've investigated fake car parts,
he investigado piezas falsas para autos,
the counterfeiter's favorite,
de la falsificación:
clothing and shoes.
ropa y zapatos.
investigando productos falsificados
of investigating fakes
to scratch the surface,
a hurgar en la superficie
totalmente podridos,
that are making money from them,
que están haciendo dinero con eso
on a massive, massive scale.
a escala gigantesca.
around a hundred to 200 percent
100 y 200 %
selling fakes online
productos falsificados en Internet
risks or penalties.
o sanciones.
the more serious types of crime,
to making these organizations,
look more legitimate.
parezcan más legítimos.
de otro caso.
a series of raids took place
ocurrieron varias redadas
investigations.
en Turquía,
counterfeit clothing products were seized,
de ropa falsificados incautados
to take that all away.
para llevárselo todo.
of creating their own fashion brands,
su propia marca de moda
on yachts in Italy.
a bordo de yates en Italia.
unheard-of and unsuspicious brand names
e inocentes marcas
container loads of fakes
de productos falsificados
that they'd set up across Europe.
creadas en Europa.
shipping documents
documentos de embarque
would literally have no idea
no tuvieran idea
in the first place.
to just one bank account,
in less than two years,
en menos de dos años
to get their stock back.
a abogados para recuperar la carga.
where all that money went,
de adónde fue todo ese dinero,
to benefit the likes of you or me.
sus vidas o la mía.
low-level street thugs.
rufianes de poca monta.
and they fly first class.
y viajan en primera clase.
and paperwork,
documentos y facturas,
and Amazon accounts
they've already sold fakes to.
a quienes vendieron los productos.
automotive trade shows
a shows de venta de autos
and the Bentleys and the flashing lights,
los Bentleys y las piezas,
en el mostrador
if you ask them the right questions.
las preguntas correctas.
faulty fake car parts
falsificadas o defectuosas
over 36,000 fatalities,
causan 36 mil víctimas
a 2.3-trillion-dollar underground economy,
de dólares en la economía sumergida
with that kind of money,
financian el terror.
en las calles de París,
en África Occidental
trips to training camps,
viajes a campos de entrenamiento,
or the ingredients for explosives.
o componentes para explosivos.
los servicios de seguridad franceses
of Said and Cherif Kouachi,
de Said y Cherif Kouachi,
on a terror watch list for three years.
durante tres años.
picking up that Cherif was buying
que Cherif estaba comprando
falsificadas en China,
del extremismo
a low-level petty crime.
un delito de bajo perfil.
of Charlie Hebdo magazine
a las oficinas de Charlie Hebdo
of those fakes.
de aquellos productos.
a faraway problem happening in China.
que ocurre en China.
191 people lost their lives
191 personas perdieron la vida
by the sale of pirate music CDs in the US.
por la venta de música pirata en EE.UU.
an Al Qaeda training manual
un manual de Al Qaeda
la venta de productos falsificados
connecting terrorism and counterfeiting,
que conecta terrorismo con falsificación,
increasing the demand
y la demanda aumenta
una tienda en Turquía
there's even a store in Turkey
las verdaderas falsificaciones".
with photographs on TripAdvisor,
publicadas en TripAdvisor
have gone into a store
estos turistas a una tienda
that we're completely helpless
completamente desprotegidos
y el terrorismo,
about the next attack,
contra el próximo ataque,
is to cut their funding,
cortando el financiamiento
that it's a victimless crime.
de que es un crimen sin víctimas.
from one investigator to another
de un investigador a otro
online counterfeiter's website.
de productos falsos.
or camera lenses, say,
like medical-insurance-bankruptcy.com,
medical-insurance-bankruptcy.com
expired domain names
dominios expirados
the old website's Google page ranking.
anterior en la clasificación de Google.
that everything is 100 percent genuine,
que todo es 100 % genuino
off the latest collection?
en la última colección?
it's that much of a joke.
Es mucho más que una broma.
or a padlock symbol next to the URL,
de un candado junto al URL,
about closing the tab,
en cerrar la página
active security measures
medidas de seguridad
and credit card information safe.
personal y crediticia.
email address, postal address --
electrónica o postal de la compañía...
to go back to Google
que volver a Google
all over again,
so that's only a good thing.
y eso es algo bueno.
fictional detective would say,
de ficción del mundo:
deeper, and ask yourself --
y pregúntense...
the cash or click "Buy,"
o pulsar "Comprar".
counterfeit watches
relojes falsificados
the next attack one day closer.
el próximo ataque.
an Instagram advert for fakes,
en Instagram,
como fraudulento.
on the dark forces of counterfeiting
en la oscuridad de la falsificación
divúlguenlo
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Alastair Gray - Brand protection managerTommy Hilfiger's Alastair Gray polices the internet in search of counterfeits, rip-offs and brand abuse.
Why you should listen
Alastair Gray is a brand protection manager responsible for policing the internet for counterfeits, rip-offs and brand abuse.
Before joining Tommy Hilfiger, Alastair spent ten years as an investigator solving cases and crises for people, businesses and brands. His work has included undercover and surveillance operations together with investigations into intellectual property theft and infringements, whistleblowing, cybercrime and fraud incidents and even stolen antiques. A self-confessed buyer of fakes in his pre-career days, he wants to spread the word on the often overlooked opportunities which fakes give to organised criminal gangs and even terrorists. Alastair graduated from the University of Durham with a Bachelor’s in Combined Arts (History, English and Politics) and has been trained in advanced open-source intelligence gathering.
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