Counterfeit products United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Counterfeiting Product counterfeiting is a form of consumer fraud: a product is sold, purporting to be something that it is not.The production and trafficking of counterfeit goods is often portrayed as a matter of intellectual property theft, and through this prism it garners little sympathy.This paper looks closely at what products are counterfeited and the effects of counterfeiting. Austria UNODC Text 20p iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/counterfeit_products.pdf