Alert – dengkimz – Ebay Fake Flash Seller
Posted by KittyFireFlash on October 15, 2008
dengkimz has been identified as an eBay seller of Counterfeit usb flash drives. 200+ flash drives have been sold from August 22nd, 2008 to October 15th, 2008 Advertised size from 2Gb to 16GB. Currently offering 16GB drives with 33 listings active daily. If you bought a drive from dengkimz you should test the drive immediately. Do not store any important data on the drive unless you can confirm you have received the advertised capacity.
The drive reported to us was listed as 8GB at auction. It arrived with a sticker on the drive stating it was 16GB. This indicates that dengkimz is sloppy in selling fakes.
October 15th, 2008 – we have 1 eBay listings confirmed fake.
This is the model sold under the eBay seller dengkimz id. 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 dengkimz, 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 the true capacity. (minus formatting overhead).
This is the 8 GB Model sold by dengkimz.
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Should your drive not report the true advertised capacity:
- 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.
- 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:
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PayPal Transaction Number
- Ebay Item Number
- Date Of PayPal Transaction
- Date Of eBay Item Listing
- Your eBayer Id
- Cite eBay Seller dengkimz
- The results from your testing with H2testw 1.4
- 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.
SOSFakeFlash 
murray mac kinnon said
I drove “besthappyseller” from Miami to change his feedback to private by contacting 5 of his fake drive buyers each day and giving them the H2test site. Getting five people to report him each day caused him to go private which means he can no longer sell on e-Bay
Comeon said
Why not post the registered names of these Sellers and their Addresses? They need a real credit card to register their accounts, so sooner or later we’ll know all their names
kittyfireflash said
We do post the names of sellers caught selling fake flash. We also post the addresses when we receive them from victims.
For Quick info on fake flash sellers, see top left column menu:
A) eBay Fakes Report – all models investigated by fake flash seller with photo of model, description and count investigated.
B) eBay Fakes – Sellers – all fake flash sellers in a table with total count of fakes. Click on seller name to activate the negative and neutrals tool for a seller. This is a quick way to get info on what other eBayers have to say and what they have reported. You don’t have to wade through a sea of FB to see.
Both are updated as soon as we have significant change in data, generally from 2 to 3 weeks apart.
The mug shot report is a very popular favorite.It has only been available to the public as of September 2008. Before that it was a private report circulated to victims on outreach rescue missions only.
The Fake Flash seller total count table with hyperlinks to activate negative and neutrals was designed to make it easy to see the current total for an eBay Fake Flash seller and to access the negatives and neutrals quickly. Who can remember exactly how to spell their id’s correctly all the time? So with a click you get the list, count and can compare what others have to say. Note: Sometimes you won’t see much Negative for a counterfeit drive we are reporting – this is because the person(s) reporting to us found out after the fact or are holding their FB back in hopes of a refund (not a wise decision).
Comeon said
I see it. But I was meant was
John Smith
123 Abbey Road
Hong Kong
Bad example cos there’re probablly tons of John Smiths, but maybe not in Hong Kong
Comeon said
Don’t just complain to PAYPAL get your credit card issuing bank involved, they trump PAYPAL.
So if Barclays issued your card bitch to them, this way PAYPAL has to pay for chargeback fees, if you wanna understand how PAYPAL works understand that they work by percentage, if a seller costs them more then they earn from the seller then they banned the seller’s account. Actually PAYPAL aint even that dumb, they is a business, they’ll ban a seller before he or she starts losing Paypal money.
So BITCH TO YOUR CREDIT CARD COMPANY once the investigation takes places PAYPAL is charged, and yes they’ll initially just pass on the fees to that particular seller, but threshold baby, if one dude proves to be a liability then he’s gone.
And be an educated Consumer, think before you buy do your bloody research, Nothing comes for Free, if its too bloody good a deal there’s a good chance there’s something wrong.