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TikTok Labubu trend exploited by criminals with dangerous fakes

Will Fyfe and Angharad Thomas

BBC News

A monster was born, the ELF -like creature from the Chinese toy manufacturer Pop March is now a viral purchase

In an anonymous industrial zone at the foot of London, a tail of a police minibus and empty trucks prevents the usual flow of lunch traffic.

They’re here to seize their fake lab. Thousands.

After weeks, the intelligence, which started in a corner shop in South Wales, took the trade standards officers to the labyrinth of a room hidden above this retail point.

Inside, millions of pounds of fake products stacked, from floor to ceiling, but what interests them the most Global tiktok craze.

According to Forbes, the popularity of labubub dolls has helped the parent to double the total income of Pop March.

They are requested by both children and adults, some say that they have been in line for hours or traveling throughout the country to secure an authentic one.

However, messages seen by the BBC News show that greetings can buy hundreds of real products to sell them at a time and report that the authorities report a false “flood”.

The border forces have seized hundreds of thousands of people from the ports of England in the last few months, while civil servants in the London industrial zone believe that they hide a darker secret by grinning from the safes.

“The head is coming out. Feet will be drawn,” Rhys Harries explained, literally leaving the trade standards.

A child with a yellow sports t -shirt holds four labs. Babies -like infants like hairy grams have large bright eyes and tooth grin. You can't see Harri's head, but the chest and the focus are on babies. On the left, there is a brown, another brown, black prada shelters, as well as a pink one and then holding a coca coke box on the right right.

Six -year -old Harri’s mother says that the fake watches he bought started to break down within a few hours

Mr. Harries saw such babies before watching them here, after raving a corner shop almost 200 miles away in Swansea.

“I found them in the bags with their eyes, their hands will come out.”

Mr. Harries’s team uses a shaped plastic tube to measure how dangerous objects are – the danger of drowning if he sleeps.

“These [parts] They will all be stuck and then potentially drowning, “he said.

A police minibus parked in an industrial zone with empty cardboard boxes containing fake lab babies.

Officers say that thousands of fake labs seized from a London industrial zone were sentenced to customers throughout England.

My mother admitted that a Jade was a false danger of a Jade, and some of them acknowledged that there was a danger of drowning after leaving shortly after leaving.

The 34 -year -old boy from Caerphilly knew that his son Harri had bought a fake nicknamed Labufus because he could not justify the cost of authentic babies for his sixth birthday.

However, after all his friends came to them and found a knocker for more than 10 £ more than £ than some real ones with £ 80, he felt “to take one”.

However, only a few hours left for Harri’s birthday, Jade said that the switching came out and then watching a part of one of the feet a few days later.

While Harri shakes his new toy, the hook came out of the switch, just to detect Jade’s mouth.

“Fortunately,” his son told him that he was old enough to tell him that his toy was smashed, but warned that everything could be different for young children.

Swansea trade standards with empty eye houses and white fluffy labubub baby. The big pink eyes sit next to the table. Swansea Trade Standards

Officers say that they have a series of fake, unaffected eyes seized

According to the Intellectual Property Office, the forced criminals to stage the market usually causes the use of dangerous materials.

“Fake is the second largest crime in the world, it is only the second of drug trafficking,” Kate Caffery, Deputy Director of Intelligence and Law Enforcement Forces. He said.

“To quickly respond to tendencies to maximize these punishment organizations, enter behind and earn the most possible money.

“That’s why we see that it is very fast and fully ignored security concerns.”

The intellectual property office Kate is smiling on the camera with a long brown hair, wearing a beige suit. He threw his head and shoulders. Intellectual property office

Kate Caffer of the Intellectual Property Office says that fraud is the second highest winner for crime networks, except for drug trafficking

Ms. Caffer, in these fake factories or “absolutely not right” claiming that they use the same materials “can be done from anything” added.

These, including toxic plastics, chemicals, and small parts that are not properly connected, can then be a suffocating danger “.

Although the fake labubus is still relatively new to the market, researchers know that they can be made with prohibited chemicals, including previous cases, including fake toys, and some of them, including cancers.

Authorities say that most of the counterfeit products, including Labubus, can be watched up to China, Hong Kong or Türkiye, and that people pay attention to pricing or packaging that makes people feel cheap and rotten.

Meg grinns as a camera while a young woman with long dark hair holds a six -colored lab in different pastel colors. Behind the toy bears and a shelf of other colored soft toys, which are a bit blurred in the focus.

Meg Goldberger bought Labubus from a seller who ordered hundreds of from Pop March from Pop March

27 -year -old Tiktoker Meg Goldberger is not foreign to gathering in a market full of fake.

There are about 250 Jellycat Plush toys as well as the new 12 labubu baby collections.

“The more he talks about it and the more difficult they get, the more I needed them. So now I have 12.”

However, in the very early period of his search, Mrs. Goldberger said she realized that the rates of real things have filed against her.

The screenshot of messages changed between Meg and a seller. Jam claims that they have received 400 labubus ordering in a recent restok.

Meg changed a message with a seller who claims that they can order hundreds of original labs directly from Pop March.

Pop said that he spent about 12 hours in a few days while waiting for the Tiktok Live video of Tiktok Live, where Labubus was offered for sale at a certain time, just like concert tickets.

“They used to be sold in a minute. Now it’s literally like two seconds. You can’t take your hands to them,” he said.

Instead, he chose to find someone who re -sell them online, but he discovered why he might have sold it so fast.

When he asked the evidence of a large energy lab series, which he was interested in from an ebay seller, Mrs. Goldberger sent a “screenshot of almost 200 orders of Labubus”.

“These people will sit at home and somehow robots will hack their websites and buy them collectively, so they go very fast. Then they will sell them.”

The image of the Fury Purple Labubu baby with arrows pointing to the fields to detect fake. These include low -quality fur, loose plastic, cheap packaging and spelling errors on labels.

How to detect a fake lab

Mr. Harries said he would be taken from London to Swansea from London to Swansea.

The rest will be stored as evidence in a secret place before recycling or destroying.

“They were going everywhere,” he said.

He continued: “There were invoice books with them and they were going all over England. This is a national issue.”

Pop was asked to comment from March.

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