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10. Receipts:                                             An incredibly popular knockoff product for Chinese citizens is fake receipts. These receipts are illegal, and people have been executed over them, but they are still peddled on the streets or they can be bought on websites that advertise on signs in Chinese cities. People can buy any type of receipt, including travel receipts, lease receipts, waste material receipts and value-added tax receipts. Then the buyers submit these receipts to evade paying taxes or to defraud employers. The receipts are also used for much larger fraud schemes. One such case involved a British pharmaceutical company who had four senior executives at their operation in China embezzle millions of dollars over the span of six years using fake receipts. One of the receipt counterfeiters said that for large receipts they take a percentage, ...