Alert – rise-fly988 – Ebay Fake Flash Seller

rise-fly988 has been identified as an eBay seller of Counterfeit flash drives. This seller is reported as being extremely uncooperative with eBay Buyers. If you have bought a drive from rise-fly988, you are at risk of data loss.

Currently selling four different model listings on eBay, SOSFakeFlash has only one drive investigated on file as of October 16th, 2008. This seller offers a lot of buy now for 16GB at ridiculous prices of 5 Pounds. No one can manufacture or make a profit on a drive that sells for 10 dollars. It costs more than this to manufacture an 8 GB drive!

• October 17th, 2008 – we have 5 eBay listings confirmed fake.

These are the models sold under the eBay seller rise-fly988 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 rise-fly988, 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 advertised capacity (minus formatting overhead).

These are the 16 GB Models sold by rise-fly988.

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 rise-fly988
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.

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