A Good Example Of How Doing Even Some Basic Research Can Help Save Being Burned

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The most scary part must be that these scammers are learning from their errors, and next time they produce some papers or whatever,- they will improve.

Undoubtedly. But fakers will target across the whole spectrum of collectors from those who are caught out by items with obvious flaws such as this which has probably taken 20 minutes to produce (if that long) to those items that are pretty much perfect copies of high-end items like formal Knights Cross citations and probably required the work of a craftsman.