Counterfeit Sports Shirts, Jerseys Becoming a Bigger Problem

Wearing a team jersey may be a great way to show your loyalty, but counterfeiters are luring stadiumfuls of sports fans into buying fakes, says a report by security firm MarkMonitor.

In fact, chances are good your favorite team is actually competing with fraudsters to steer you to the real thing. MarkMonitor says that over the course of a year of tracking, it found 1,300 web sites selling more than 1.2 million team jerseys or shirts online, generating almost $25 million in revenue and attracting 56 million annual visits. The "vast majority" of sites were linked to a Chinese registrant or registrar.