Cheap fake alcohol is luring buyers and flooding shops. It’s deadly, illegal, and costing South Africa R16.5 billion in lost excise taxes.

People selling fake alcohol have been known to operate at market stalls as unlicensed vendors or even go door-to-door trying to sell their counterfeit products. Flame test.

In Istanbul, 70 people have died since Jan. 14, according to NTV. In Ankara, 33 have died since Jan. 1., NTV reported citing Ankara governor Vasip Sahin.

An identification card. Several international students at Boston University said they have often acquired fake international ID cards to get around the U.S. legal drinking age of 21. ILLUSTRATION BY ...

Authorities seized around 50,000 fake medical alcohol bottles and sealed off the production line. Severe consequences. Dr. Nguyen Trung Nguyen, Director of the Poison Control Center at Bach Mai ...

The fake alcohol ring would take a bottle of whiskey, and mix it with food-grade alcohol, chemical additives, coloring agents and malt sugar to produce enough whiskey to fill three bottles, Weng said.

Everyone I know has a fake ID.” Roughly 40% of underage alcohol consumers — including high school students — owned or had used a fake ID, according to a 2016 study published in the journal ...

Turkey issued a warning to avoid bootleg alcohol in the country after a staggering 103 people were reported to have been fatally poisoned in two major cities since the new year. All the deaths so ...