Alert – pengsoloshow – Ebay Fake Flash Seller

pengsoloshow is an eBay seller of Counterfeit usb flash drives. A powerseller on eBay, our first confimred fake dates back to July 2008. He has sold hundreds of counterfeit 32 GB flash drives. The true capacity is generally as high as 7.9 GB and therefore few eBayers discover in general testing before they leave feedback – it is only when the data loss begins that they find they have bought a fake from this seller. pengsoloshow is another seller id controlled by the Don Of Fake Flash In the Orient – 3ToTrade. If you bought from this seller, you must test your drive immediately. We have three models and investigated for you to inspect.

pengsoloshow belongs to the counterfeit ring of the Don Of Fake Flash In the Orient (3ToTrade, Shopwithmela, whatcools, kaho.chan). This has only recently been discovered. To see the original post, with linking articles please go to September 6th, 2008 on the calendar. See the Article:

3ToTrade – Whatcools – Shopwithmela – kaho.chan Sinister Counterfeit Flash Drive Connection On Ebay

The return address submitted recently by an eBayer stung with fake flash from pengsoloshow back in July was:

Zhong Lisha(PS)

Zhong Lisha(PS)
32B, XiaoFeng Building ,
YouYi Road, Luohu District,
Shenzhen, 518002
Guangdong Province
China

If you review the article above, you will see the return addresses that SOSFakeFlash uncovered and put together. This was how we were able to put together who was in charge and at the helm of this fake flash ship.

The return address just submitted by a new victim of pengsoloshow is:

Chinese Guangdong Province,
Shenzhen,
Luohu area lake shell new village 138 403, 518001,
China

Notice, no person name is in the address.

The Don of Fake Flash has been suspended on eBay. eBayers saw to that – they were patiently waiting for him to reappear. The victims of 3ToTrade were not going to let him triumph again in his fake flash profits. This time they were armed and ready with their keyboard fingers. 3ToTrade was thunderstruck – negatives? Negatives? That does not happen to a fake flash seller like 3ToTrade. Well it did and soon eBay was preparing to slam him onto a glass slide for examination under the microscope of fraud.

So realizing his coming ordeal with eBay he polished his halo, put on his white gown of innocence and stopped listing fake flash drives. He channelled his fake flash drives into whatcools and kaho.chan. Once again eBayers warmed up the their keyboards and began the attack! SOSFakeFlash already knew of his sleeper ids, only 3ToTrade did not know there was such a thing as SOSFakeFlash. They lit their bonfires and began sending smoke signals of warning to eBayers. They raced in to drag their fellow shoppers from fake flash flames.

The New victims of the sleeper id’s were counselled by the victims of 3ToTrade. They shared their own personal stories of woe with the new victims. They issued boxing gloves to the victims. Then an orderly march of victims proceeded to the Paypal dispute console.

What happened? Once more, negative? Negative? kaho.chan and whatcools reeled in shock. Immediately they switched to devious private auction listings. The victims of whatcools dragged a battering ram to eBay and reported the listings over and over and over again. They advised of our site, and the evidence. Whatcools was suspended. The early victims of whatcools are still fighting for their refunds but the later victims have been successful – whatcools under 3ToTrade is not interested in landing up in jail for the sake of the Don Of Fake flash.

Kaho.chan is still in operation, he managed to switch to private auctions before the eBayer army was able to warn the buyers. Unfortuantely, under this sort of auction it is almost impossible to find the victims, or atleast not before they have left postive feedback and become harmless to the sellers nicely padded fake flash positive feedback score.

So what on earth does all this have to do with pengsoloshow? Simple. It took longer for us to find the connection. The fake flash angels have just too much work on their plates. They have paying jobs they have to do. This work is strictly volenteer. Nobody gets paid. Volenteers even have to dig into their own pockets to fund their missions. So unfortunately we did not make the connection in time to rescue the victims of pengsoloshow.

The fact this seller has changed his return address speaks volumes. It means the Don Of Fake Flash isn’t going to stop selling flash drives – until somebody in Chinese law enforcement catches up with him. Re-education will be a challenge when they do. Perhaps he should be reprogrammed with the software used to turn innocent flash drives into diabolical frankenflash? As we learn, so does he. He is covering his tracks – trying to remove evidence from eBay and PayPals eyes. He did not want to lose his precious pengsoloshow id as well and found another location in China.

If you are reading this and you bought a drive from pengsoloshow, you can be almost 100% sure you have a fake. We don’t have a lot of investigated fakes, but we have 3 of the 4 models sold confirmed. It only takes one confirmation to flag that the rest for a model are counterfeit too.

• October 3rd, 2008 – we have 4 eBay listings confirmed fake.

These are the models sold under the eBay seller pengsoloshow All are confirmed as Counterfeit, recorded with eBayer ID and eBay Item Number – Standard Procedure. Presented as listed at auction. Counterfeit items tied to criminal activity enjoy no protection. If you bought one of these usb fake flash drives from pengsoloshow, you should test immediately with the software H2testw 1.4 . Do not store any important data on the drive until you can confirm you have 32 GB (minus formatting overhead) for the 32 GB Models. If your model is not shown here. Contact us, we are missing one of the 32GB we have on file.

These are the 32 GB Models sold by pengsoloshow since date, 2008.

Should your drive not report the true advertised capacity:

1. Immediately attempt to move any data you have stored on the drive to another source. Be advised if you have stored more than the reported size from H2testw 1.4, you will not be able to recover it all – you can expect to see errors in the copy back.
2. Immediately report to eBay and PayPal to add your voice against this seller.

If the eBay Item number has disappeared from your won list. Please go to PayPal and search through your transactions for the approximate time frame of your purchase. You will find the details of your transaction and ebay item number. PayPal keeps this information for a long time. Use the email address:

Please include:

1. PayPal Transaction Number
2. Ebay Item Number
3. Date Of PayPal Transaction
4. Date Of eBay Item Listing
5. Your eBayer Id
6. Cite eBay Seller pengsoloshow
7. The results from your testing with H2testw 1.4
8. Any information concerning data loss and it’s value to you

You are to inform them you wish to be part of the investigation against this seller and are adding yourself to the evidence. You expect to be fully refunded for the purchase and shipping and if you can prove data loss compensation for it as well. Furthermore, it is a fact that PayPal and eBay are aware of cases pouring in. You are invited to copy:

on your correspondence. This seller has sold hundreds counterfeit drives.

To see pengsoloshow’s negative feedback click here.