Just another reason I'm glad I mostly stick to vintate (auto forgery ring busted)

https://sportscollectorsdigest.com/breaking-news-sports-memorabilia-dealer-raided-admits-scamming-collectors-hobby-in-350m-fraud-and-forgery-scheme

This is a crazy story but not shocking. The current modern hobby has grown so big with so much money in new releases, parallels, chase cards, etc that I wouldn't be surprised at all to find that all large companies actually used someone like this to put out product. I know there is plenty of vintage forgeries as well, especially the larger cards, but the scale of this sounds insane.