A recent report about a raid of stalls in Greenhills, San Juan, Philippines about fake Louis Vuitton bags was read in the Philippine's top TV news. An excerpt of the report below:
17 stalls in Greenhills raided for fake Louis Vuitton, Gucci bags
ABS-CBNNEWS.com | 09/08/2008 6:11 PM
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) raided stalls at the Greenhills Shopping Center Monday and confiscated sacks of fake Louis Vuitton and Gucci products.
The NBI's National Capital Region unit took counterfeit designer bags from 17 stalls at the Greenhills Shopping Center.
According to Atty. Rommel Vallejo of the NBI-NCR, Louis Vuitton and Gucci have filed complaints against traders for their rampant selling of fake designer bags.
The government is also losing millions of pesos from the non-payment of taxes on the counterfeit products, he said.
As of posting time, the NBI-NCR was still conducting an inventory of the items to see how much they are worth. --report from MAAN MACAPAGAL, ABS-CBN News
With this alarming news how would one then differentiate a real and a fake Louis Vuitton bag? Here's how: