Fake PSA slabs

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by BeanTown

Wow, now that’s scary bad. I heard there was some outfit South of the border bringing in fake PSA slabs years ago. With how the PSA market is, these slabs could become more valuable than actual drugs being smuggled across.

"Copperfield" put LOTS of bad cards out there, and had a whole network of mules running them into the US. The feds pursued him for years. What was never clear to me is whether, as he became bigger and more sophisticated, he was actually having slabs fabricated as opposed to breaking them and resealing them (which he clearly was doing early on). Sometimes the only clue was very subtle misalignment of letters or numbers in the flip but given the constant change of flip styles that could be hard to detect.