Protecting People and their Products

“Holmes, of MI:33, an investigative firm that specializes in helping brand owners says Alibaba is ‘a major thorn in the side’ of his clients.“

Rob Holmes works with all kinds of major brands. Trolling eBay, buying counterfeit products and going after the people selling them.

Such a compelling story!

Protecting the cyber world is the Sherlock Holmes of the Internet, Rob Holmes. Rob sets up the virtual crime scene, analyses it, and then catches the bad guys.

“It’s increasingly easy for counterfeiters with little experience to build a site that looks and functions like a major company’s website”, says MI:33's Rob Holmes

“Rob and Jason Holmes take on some of the world’s biggest counterfeiters. It’s all raids, Russian gangs, and (fake) Rolexes.“

“Tiffany is David and eBay is Goliath now; it’s not the other way around anymore. These Internet companies are bigger than the luxury brand companies, financially and structurally,” said Rob Holmes, president of MI:33.

…Rob Holmes, president of MI:33 a firm that tracks counterfeit products online, figures that about one fifth of the goods listed on eBay are fakes.

Holmes believes that HP’security team used clever tricks in their surveillance of directors, employees and reporters, but he said that to discuss these tactics openly in internal company e-mails was the height of ‘amateurism.’