Not because the sticker can't be copied — anyone can copy paper. Because copying it gets a counterfeiter nothing. Watch.
A counterfeiter can photocopy our sticker, clone our colors, even rebuild this page pixel-for-pixel. The one thing on Earth they cannot do is put legitly.com in your browser's address bar. Only we can be at legitly.com — that's how the internet works.
Scan the sticker, then look at the top of the browser before you trust the page. The address must say legitly.com (our verification pages live at v.legitly.com and v2.legitly.com — both are ours).
Typing the code by hand? Check the address bar at the top of the window: a padlock and legitly.com. Click the padlock and the certificate says LEGITLY — that can't be forged either.
A tamper-evident scratch-off sticker with a one-time code — here's its 10-second life story.
Applied at your facility. The 9-character code sleeps under the coating — invisible to counterfeiters photographing your product.
One thumb-swipe exposes the code. Scan the QR or type the code — works on any phone, no app.
Green means genuine. From that second on, this code answers "Previously Verified" to the entire planet — forever.
There are only four ways to fake a protected product. Walk through them like a counterfeiter would — and watch each one collapse.
They photograph or photocopy a genuine sticker — QR code, security code and all — and print it on a thousand fakes.
Dead end: every code verifies exactly once. The first scan claims it forever. Scan #2 onward — on every one of those thousand fakes — shows "Previously Verified" with the scan count. The fake exposes itself in the customer's hand.
They print their own scratch-off stickers with made-up 9-character codes, hoping one lands.
Dead end: 9 characters from a 31-character set is roughly 26 trillion combinations — and only codes issued by LEGITLY, stored as one-way cryptographic hashes, will ever verify. An invented code fails on the spot.
They get one genuine unscratched code and print it on fakes shipped nationwide.
Dead end: the live activity map catches it. One code scanning in three cities within 24 hours is automatically flagged for review — the brand gets the alert, sees every scan pinned on the map, and kills the code.
They lift an entire roll of genuine, unused stickers from the supply chain and apply them to counterfeits.
Dead end: unactivated stickers verify nothing. A roll only goes live when the brand scans its activation label into their account. Stolen stock is inert paper with pretty printing.
This widget runs the same logic as the real verification system. Go ahead — be the counterfeiter.
Type any 9-character code you like — your best guess at a real one.
Traditional anti-counterfeit tech tries to make the physical label harder to copy — holograms, microtext, special inks. Counterfeiters copy them anyway. LEGITLY moves the battle somewhere they can't reach.
The sticker. The hologram. The QR code. The look. All of it — paper and ink have always been copyable, and always will be.
The verification record. One code, one product, one first-scan — enforced by a database only LEGITLY writes to. Copying the paper never copies the truth.
For counterfeiters, that is.
Every anti-counterfeit approach, judged by one question: what happens after the counterfeiter copies it?
| Capability | Hologram | Plain QR code | LEGITLY |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copying it is pointless | |||
| Detects a code being reused | |||
| Live map of every scan | |||
| Automatic abuse flagging & alerts | |||
| Customer can verify with any phone | Opens a link — proves nothing | ||
| Protection lives beyond the label |
A hologram is a decoration the moment it's copied — and hologram copying is an industry. A plain QR code just opens whatever URL is printed on it, real or fake.
The whole system pays off in one screen — green relief, or red proof.
The questions sharp buyers ask — answered without hand-waving.
They can — and it gets them nothing. Each code verifies once. The first scan claims it; every scan after shows Previously Verified with the count. A copied sticker exposes the fake at the worst possible moment: in the customer's hand.
Codes are 9 characters from a 31-character set — about 26 trillion combinations. Only codes LEGITLY issued will verify, and they're stored as one-way cryptographic hashes, so even our own database never holds the raw codes.
The activity map flags it automatically — the same code scanning across multiple cities in a short window turns red, the brand gets alerted, and the code gets killed. One stolen code can't scale.
Inert. Rolls only activate when the brand scans the roll's activation label into their account. Until then — and unless it's their account — the stickers verify nothing.
DabJuice runs LEGITLY scratch-off verification on every batch — each unit carries its own one-scan code, verified by customers on their own white-label subdomain.
Rolls from $14.95. Every order includes the live activity map and 30 days of free hosting.