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MILLIONS of dollars in PSA card counterfeits! And one man responsible!

Junk Wax Hero

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Anthony Curcio, a convicted felon who rebuilt his life, destroyed everything again via counterfeiting and trimming PSA sports cards.

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20 Comments

@mr.bloodvessel260 1 month ago

For less than $70,000 you can manufacture PSA slabs in your home!

@Luciddreamer007 1 month ago

Interesting story - my grandpa used to talk about how if thieves would just put half the energy into honest pursuits they would be successful beyond their wildest dreams.

That guy Matt has integrity

@chrisc4264 1 month ago (edited)

PSA is guilty just like Curcio. Heck the first card PSA ever graded was trimmed. This hobby is full of good people but it's the bad apples that ruin it.

@CardCollectingVibes 1 month ago

Wish these people weren’t in the hobby. Makes my feel good about collecting mostly cheap stuff that nobody would counterfeit.

@in2rock275 1 month ago

Scammers are actually very intelligent people. If they'd only put that intelligence to work to do good.

@JamesBro-s7s 1 month ago

It's now coming to light about PSA' THEY HAVE BEEN SCANDALS FOR OVER A DECADE..

@DavidWells-g6w 1 month ago

In the Art market it's estimated 50 percent of art works are fake. So sad that now the card market is having the same problem.

@VintageFootballCarder 1 month ago

Is there fraud? Hell yes! It’s out in the open! Probstein ran and promoted his own cheapo shill-bidding website, leaked user data, didn’t report the leak …. and nobody talks about it anymore because he’s making too many people money!

@bhfromnh3914 1 month ago

The amount of card swap outs by PSA is insane

@DarthBlue13 1 month ago

I think as part of his punishment they should have made him watch his own videos everyday all day. Leave it up to most criminals to basically bust themselves. Thanks for sharing Mike.

@mywoodlakememories3011 1 month ago

Big dollar cards are always enticing to counterfeiters and crooks. They (crooks) spend a lot more time working on their craft (counterfeiting) than PSA does in validating and grading these big dollar cards. Fakes will always make it through the system!

@stevezeppieri 1 month ago

What a story. I didn’t want it to end. I wanted to hear more. I guess we’ll have to wait and see. Nice work Mike.

@mulemule 1 month ago

This might be THE first time Social Media created a net positive for the Hobby: Curcio was clearly on multiple folks' radar.

@jpmnky 1 month ago

I’ve long suspected this to be the case. And it’s far from one man. He’s just the ine that got caught.

@luciobarbarinomusic 1 month ago

PSA are a bunch of scam artists and honestly, I look down on people who still submit to them

@WickedtreasuresSarasota 1 month ago

Well mike we all know PSA has some shady practices for sure

@Mysportscardhoard 1 month ago

Wowzers. Some creepy people in this thing. lol.

@mikeslater4951 1 month ago

There's always greed to ruin things

@sammyhill93 1 month ago

What a story! Should make for another best-selling children’s book, eh? 😆 Some people are just rotten to the core 🤦🏻‍♂️

@ComicsAndRobotics 1 month ago

So there could be many people out there, having fake cards in their collection to this day. And what if somebody had this person as their favorite seller. It's possible half of someone's collection could be fake out there now.