diaoweifeng2008 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – Deregisters – China

diaoweifeng2008 was a seller of counterfeit flash drives on eBay – this seller id was designed to “Hit and Run” in selling counterfeit flash drives. Based in China diaoweifeng2008 appeared on eBay September 21, 2008 and disappeared on November 9th, 2008. In three short weeks almost 950 fake flash drives(8GB and 16GB) were dumped on unsuspecting buyers around the world. All 16GB models were hidden behind private auction listings – a violation of eBay’s intent for this listing type.

diaoweifeng2008 has demonstrated how easy it is to get around eBay and PayPal. It also sends a message from this region of the world that they don’t take eBay seriously. eBay will be their pipeline to distribute fake flash around the world and rake in profit. eBay not clever. They very much clever.

Fake flash sellers adapt quickly to any attempts by eBay or anybody else to stop them. Exploiting the weaknesses that exist in eBay they have send of plague of fake flash and data loss around the world. diaoweifeng2008 has demonstated this all too well.

If you bought a drive from diaoweifeng2008, you can still claim.

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fukkee Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – Hong Kong

fukkee is an eBay seller of Counterfeit Flash USB drives. Based in Hong Kong this seller has cleverly built his postive feedback by selling covers for Ipod and iphones at prices of 01 to .30 to boost postive feedback ratings. The big ticket item is fake flash drives. Worse still, is fukkee’s attempts to hide his fake flash merchandise from being found out, abusing eBay’s intent for private auctions. fukkee has now been detected and confirmed as a fake flash seller.

If you bought a drive from this seller, please test it immediately and do not store important data until you can confirm that you have the true advertised capacity – you are at risk of data loss.