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Customers might not even know they're buying fakes. never a good thing. peter doocy is arrive in washington with more. >> reporter: as a part of project copycat, federal law enforcement officers went undercover as unknowing consumers, and they bought these counterfeit products like baby carriers, pro sports jerseys and now 70 of the web sites they were buying these goods from have been seized. these were foreign web sites, and the domain names are now in the custody of the federal government. anybody visiting these sites today will find a seizure banner, and a lot of folks might be surprised b...

Legitimate web site. whatever product that they're buying, in fact, is a fake. so whatever the cost is, they're paying that cost. they may not get their product in the first place. if they do, it's going to be counterfeit, a fake, and they'll have no idea until they have that unpleasant surprise when that product either doesn't come or it falls apart. >> reporter: 839 domain names have been seized in the last two years through the justice department's operation in our sights, including the 70 we're talking about right now that were seized as part of project copycat. the national intellectual p...