A reverse scam scheme exists too: somebody buy an OEM product, and markets it as its own development. I see it being rather common on sites like Kickstarter.

A reverse scam scheme exists too: somebody buy an OEM product, and markets it as its own development. I see it being rather common on sites like Kickstarter. A slightly less egregious variation of this is when such is done with OEM's knowledge, and/or some customisation is done specifically to conceal an OEM origin of the product. I believe this kind of op makes a double digit of all Kickstarter hardware projects. I myself encountered such in Vancouver once. A woman was claiming a CEO of a medical start-up doing "deep machine learning" bluetooth pulse oximeter of own design, and was pitching on HackerNest Vancouver at around 2013-2014. I cannot imagine that she somehow managed to get few millions in funding for that. I sent a photo with with an RFQ to Alibaba, and got quotes from trade companies in minutes, and then posted a screenshot on the HackerNest's meetup page. Then, I ran onto a trio claiming the idea, and design of a flexible silicone keyboard as their own on either Kickstarter, or Indigogo. After sending emails to the platform few times over few months, they quietly deleted the project page without much public comment to either me, or the public.