EXAMPLE OF FORGED HARRIS PART BY ERAI MEMBER.
1st
Nov.2006
To
Federal Bureau
of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
Sub: Counterfeitism and forgery of
Electronic
parts, Semiconductors, Aviation parts, Military specification parts.
Involvement of ERAI
in connecting counterfeit trade to USA, counterfeit trade
networking.
BRIDGING POTENTIAL BUYERS AND COUNTERFEITERS.
USA
is big market for semiconductors and electronic parts. 1000s of
brokers,
independent distributors are involved in trading, distribution
and exporting. Unfortunately lot of counterfeiters are also involved in
this
trade. Seeing such big potential and business involved many brokers
and traders are required to be networked on information highway to find
demand
and supply situation all over the globe.
There are billions worth counterfeited Electronic parts enter into USA and other countries originating from China. Major usage of such parts are
military applications, radar, aviation, marine, medical equipments, life support devices, power automation, instrumentation and other industrial equipments.
This counterfeit trade is organized on various Internet platforms , various accreditions and trade tie ups and links. There are couple of
PRIVATE COMPANIES LIKE ERAI USA(www.erai.com) & ERAI China who illegally give accredition and privately license them to openly distribute,
advertise , offer and circulate those counterfeited forged devices. Many counterfeiters are inter connected with potential buyers by ERAI trade network.
Deals are performed with unsupervised ally of networked members and outside network.
The process is simple for networking counterfeit business and members.
A) Counterfeiters would approach ERAI or vice versa,
B) Counterfeiters will pay around 1000 $ fees to ERAI.
C)ERAI will give them unconditional accredition and certifying to be their member and
D) Illegally allowing them by becoming their gateway to USA hence easing smooth trade.
E)This membership helps counterfeiters to sell their parts with more status and reliable label.
F)Sellers while making selling contract or deal use ERAI affiliation, accredition and support .
Otherwise clicking deal could be much difficult without ERAI support.
G)ERAI brings potential customers close to counterfeiters through their network. These forged parts cannot be sold
other wise without their network, which would bring jackpot fortune price of 5 to 10 times more.
ERAI DOES JOB OF BRIDGING AND NETWORKING POTENTIAL BUYERS AND COUNTERFEITERS. ERAI IN THEIR WEBSITE ADVERTISE FOLLOWING:
"ERAI offers its members the power of a large, world-wide hi-tech electronics resellers network. For more than eight years,
ERAI has been providing Information, mediation and profitability solutions to electronics distribution professionals world-wide"
Now let me tell you how parts are counterfeited.
1) Fake parts are produced, labeled and printed as original
2) Salvaged, scrap parts are recycled, relabeled
3) Cheap commercial grade parts are converted to industrial or Military grade by simple printing and
labeling which are in turn sold as high as 10 times price.
Military spec parts are used for military applications, aviation and life supporting devices. They do pass preliminary
electrical tests but often fail in critical real situations. An aircraft part which is designed to work with a device meant for 125 degree centigrade ,
if replaced by a counterfeit part which would withstand only 100degree centigrade. So there are chances of this device getting failed at critical situation,
which could be hazardous when an aircraft is flying or an equipment working in extreme summer or at hazardous weather conditions, Any aerospace,
or military application equipments may pose threat to life, or security of the system if used with rampantly spread counterfeit parts.
We would like to provide you full information on organizations who are involved in privately licensing those counterfeiters giving them opportunity
to spread their products. This involvement can be very disastrous and security threat to nation and planet.
There are billions of dollars worth parts which are jointly sold or distributed or marketed or channelised through organizations like ERAI,
We hope you understand this letter better in interest of national security and threat which can be posed due to counterfeitism and forgery.
We need to stop and cut the roads to such forgery which is supported, aggravated and cooperated by companies like ERAI- www.erai.com
Let us know if you are interested in working on this tip, we are ready to provide you full support, information
and technical aspects. You are free to write or call any time .
This information we are sending after collecting lot of relevant facts and figures which would be helpful to fight the counterfeit menace.
Hopefully you will let us know if rapidly growing counterfeit virus needs to be curbed. Also support and assistance of US customs would be appreciated.
ERAI claims that they are watch dog of this industry who is trying to fight counterfeitism, but they themselves
couldn't resist millions coming out of membership from their accredited members. They are self promoted police of this
industry and due to their unethical practices they are able to command and threat whosoever people in industry with their
illegal acts. On the name of protecting Electronic industry ERAI is involved in unfair trade practices, undue support to
their affiliated members, DATA STEALING, collecting business information for own benefit (for helping their associates)
and harassing honest companies who do not pay them annual bribe. Please give us a call or we can have meeting or communicate through media.
Let us find proper strategy and solution and fight counterfeitism. We would provide full details and cooperation once we hear from you.
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ERAI is Based at MA, FL and some other locations including China. Contact details of ERAI:
1)President ERAI ( www.erai.com ) eraiEscrow ( www.eraiescrow.com )
Parthunter LLC
(www.parthunter.com ) Phone: 239-261-6268 Fax:
239-261-9379
Email: ksnider@erai.com,
2)Operations Manager, Electronic
Resellers Association International Inc
ERAI Grievance Committee
Moderator Phone:
508-746-8475 Fax: 508-746-8940 Email: tlively@erai.com
3) Authorized
ERAI China office ( Beginning Aug 2006)
C/o Simgo Info
Consultants ,Rm 511, North, Nantian Building , No.3, Jiangong
road, Guangzhou, China Tel:86-20-85557783, mobile 13560036685,
carrietankiki@hotmail.com
contact: Wong
wenson other numbers: +86-20-61138224
,+86-20-61138224 (Before Aug 2006, it was operating from a Electronic
broker's
office on Business Table space)
They go by few more names, which can be given upon
request.
Eg. Parthunter, Hitech parts,IIT-LLC.COM (Innovative information
Technology),
I.A.E.D., DISTYALLIANCE
EXAMPLE OF FORGED HARRIS PART BY ERAI MEMBER.
CONFIRMED BY HARRIS/INTERSIL APPLICATION CENTRE.
MORE PICTURES OF COUNTERFEITS
Copy to ERAI , Various trade commissions. SBAC(The Society of British Aerospace Companies), Intersil, Defence Industries Councils, Burr Brown, Analog devices, Motorola, National semiconductors
European Aviation Safety agency (EASA), US Customs and Border Protection.
BRIEF
OVER LOOK OF COUNTEFEITING PROCESS:
Couterfeiting
process of Electronic parts
1) Most
counterfeit parts are produced from cheaper parts by simple pin counts
and
printing
2) Equivalent and cross function parts are reprinted with the part
number
which is in demand. ( EXAR 8038 IS PRINTED AS ICL8038 INTERSIL)
3) Scrap from ship wrecks, old equipments, machines, old
populated boards
often find way in refurbishing industry.
4) Similar copies and fakes are produced in illegal foundries which are
often
unreliable and has more failure rates, rejection.
Please beware that professional counterfeiters are good enough in
matching
data, finding cross, reprinting labels with proper bar code , tubes,
reels,
trays and fake packing.
They do give certain guarantee and take help of
companies like ERAI to find proper marketing channel in developed and
developing countries. Criminals often find some
affiliation, trading platforms
to boost their product image. (Just imagine a counterfeit windows XP
copy also
works, or a fake Omega, or Ricoh also works)
More than half of such produce sell off the counters in showrooms. The
buyers
who source products on foot work take those parts to their receiving
country
and sell them
with no guarantee and warranty. Before couple of years majority
of counterfeits had no channel to globally distribute their products.
Thanks to
ERAI and many Internet
trading portals who have helped them in spreading this
virus. After all who doesn't need share in hot billions dollar industry.
Interestingly many ERAI members with counterfeit products are able
to
command multi fold profit by taking accredition , support and
protection by
paying meager
amount of approximately 1000$ a year, with unconditional and no
prerequisite to join the band.
Counterfeiting of Mil-spec parts and Extended Temperature parts:
Parts with 883 ,JAN, 5962, JM38510, TD, SD, TE extension are
counterfeited by
converting commercial parts by reprinting.
Commercial parts of CDIP, Metal Can, Hermetic type are purchased
or
imported by counterfeiters or removed from old boards which are
converted
by printing
specified part number, repacked, labeled and same thing is exported
to potential customer. These kind of parts pass in all kind of
electrical
tests.
But fail only in critical industrial and hazardous applications.
Parts if subjected to
MIL-STD-810F or GJB548A tests there are likely chances
they fail if tested to its full limits. Normally any broker would not
test
these
types of parts if they pass visual inspection and electrical
tests.
Another type of substandard mil spec parts however are original but
taken out
from old boards, scrap. Parts removed from old boards are cleaned,
boiled in
hot water,
polished, repacked and reprinted with uniform date code. Short
pins are made long with heat process to make it look like original and
new.
