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Are these cards real or fake?

Liquate

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    Hello. I am wondering if these cards I have, which seem to have quite a few errors, are real or fake. I got them years ago from my parents out of a pokemon pack they bought me for Christmas in (I believe) 2007. I feel like they are fake based on the number of errors they have and the fact that I got them all at the same time, but I want to be 100% sure. I'm also unsure of how I even got fakes and how they even get into the packs in the first place.

    The first card is Magmortar Lv. X #123/123 -- Magmortar Lv. X has no holofoil on it at all even though it's Lv. X
    The second is Magmortar 12/123. -- Magmortar has no holofoil but appears as if it should.
    The third card is "Quilave" 60/123. -- Quilava is spelled with an "e" at the end instead of an "a". "Quilave".
     

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    icycatelf

    icycatelf

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    • 100% fake. The "flat" holofoil pattern, bloated Energy (only used for Energy card artwork), and lack of the accented é in Pokémon are common giveaways of counterfeits.
     
    icycatelf

    icycatelf

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    • Do you remember what kind of pack they were in? If it was a regular foil booster, the others in that pack were probably fake as well. If they were loose cards in a plastic blister pack, there could've been some real cards among them. The loose-card blisters are packaged by third party companies and they sometimes get counterfeits in there. I remember getting a fake (though pretty convincing) Combusken in one before.
     

    daniian

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    how do i ad a foto? I have found four cards and I think they are fake. But before throwing them away I woul like a second opinion.
     
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    icycatelf

    icycatelf

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    • daniian said:
    how do i ad a foto? I have found four cards and I think they are fake. But before throwing them away I woul like a second opinion.
    Click to expand...
    Click Edit (for an existing post) or Go Advanced in the Quick Reply section (for new posts), then scroll down to Additional Options. There you'll find an "Attach Files" option.

    It'd be a shame to throw them away when you could use them for craft projects (like making your own "just for fun" cards and gluing them to the fakes).
     
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    daniian

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    icycatelf said:
    Click Edit (for an existing post) or Go Advanced in the Quick Reply section (for new posts), then scroll down to Additional Options. There you'll find an "Attach Files" option.

    It'd be a shame to throw them away when you could use them for craft projects (like making your own "just for fun" cards and gluing them to the fakes).
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    Its not working. I keep receiveing this
    "A security token was missing. If this occurred unexpectedly, please contact us and describe the action you performed before you received this error."
     
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