---
title: "Ferrari’s New Bounty Program Rewards You for Ratting Out Fakes"
description: "Ferrari will reward you for reporting knockoff Ferrari products anywhere it has a presence... If you can prove it."
date: "2023-12-18"
modified: "2023-12-18"
authors:
  - name: "James Gilboy"
    job_title: "Contributing Writer"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/james-gilboy.md"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/ferraris-new-bounty-program-rewards-you-for-ratting-out-fakes"
categories:
  - "Ferrari News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "Ferrari"
  - "luxury"
  - "sports car"
---

# Ferrari’s New Bounty Program Rewards You for Ratting Out Fakes

![Fake Ferrari LaFerrari](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/18/fake-ferrari.jpg>)
*\<em\>Facebook Marketplace\</em\>*

Ferrari's infamous for [policing its brand with extreme prejudice](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/32386/no-ferrari-did-not-send-a-cease-and-desist-letter-to-this-rotary-swapped-456-gt-builder.md>), to the point where [it'll sue you if you so much as got to a name it wanted first](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/32062/ferrari-sues-italian-charity-that-owns-purosangue-trademark.md>). Now, it's recruiting rats around the world by offering a reward to people who tell it when a business may be infringing on its copyright. But this doesn't mean you can call in a stampede on [your neighbor's Ferrari-badged Chevy](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/36429/this-chevy-corvette-c8-with-ferrari-badges-was-an-a-troll-job.md>).

The program was communicated to owners earlier this month through an email posted to forum [FerrariChat.com](<https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/ferrari-reward-anticounterfeiting-initiative.686318/>). The [Ferrari Anti-Counterfeiting Reward Scheme](<https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/reward-anticounterfeiting?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2023_email_RewardAnticontraffazione&utm_content=&idm=000eb75f3a444664202bb4fa6c30a8e6&ids=0f3465e42b8a6815826ba892802e04a42a9718630539f1831363414509b30e6e>) invites members of the public to speak out "if you have identified a product that infringes on Ferrari Trademarks being sold at a commercial establishment." That means your local used car dealer that's misrepresenting [a Toyota Celica kit car](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/14377/this-celica-based-ferrari-replica-is-wrong-on-so-many-levels.md>) can now get what's coming to him.

![Ferrari 250 GTO replica](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/18/tom-cruise-250-gto-e1564514446336.jpeg>)
*Ferrari 250 GTO replica. *Mecum Auctions**

By and large though, this seems targeted more at fake [Ferrari](<https://www.thedrive.com/category/ferrari-news>) merchandise, which you can find tons of online, or in seedy tourist shops. The wording makes clear this mostly has to be through brick-and-mortar places, with the stuff you see on eBay being a big maybe—you gotta get the seller's address to report them. Basically, you're doing legwork for Ferrari's lawyers.

As for what you get in return, Ferrari's awfully vague about that. It only promises an unspecified "gift item \[...\] while stocks last." [Ferrari](<https://www.thedrive.com/category/ferrari-reviews>) also says that if you don't give enough info, or if it already got a report about the seller you turned in, or for any reason it makes up, it doesn't have to fulfill its end of the bargain.

And before you get any ideas, no, you can't put a fake Ferrari ballcap on sale yourself to get a free teddy bear. Or $10 in gift store credit, or whatever you get. Maybe it'll be a lapel pin. Be grateful, it has a retail value of $549.99.

*Got a tip or question for the author? You can reach them here: james@thedrive.com*

## Author
James is a former staff writer for The Drive. He has changed the conversation around electrification, debunked misinformation online, and become a prominent hunter of what he calls "automotive cryptids."

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/jamesgilboy>)

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