Pokemon Cards might seem like an innocuous pastime for kids or avid tabletop players, but they've become a sought after commodity for scalpers and collectors. Some cards go for a much as $57,000. It's so bad, there are counterfeits flooding the market - 7.2 tons of which were seized at an airport in Shanghai.

For reference, a car weighs 1.4 tons on average, so that's around five cars worth. That's a lot of fake cards. It's such an epidemic there are guides all over the internet with

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