Looking to buy a loved one a Nintendo handheld this holiday season? Well you better make sure it’s actually a Nintendo handheld and not a cheap knockoff like those that were seized by British officials.

It seems that a shipment of Nintendo DS imitators that were purchased from Asia, at an alarmingly discounted price, were intercepted by the good ol’ Brits. But what’s the big deal, the youngins won’t know the difference right?

Wrong, the power supplies that were shipping with these fake consoles were found to be potentially hazardous. So buyers, Mike Rawlinson, managing director of Nintendo’s fraud investigation company, reminds you that if a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Read (Yahoo! Tech)