electronicbase663 aka szeho663 Ebay Grand Daddy of Fake Flash Seller Alert Hong Kong

electronicbase663 formerly known under szeho663 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in Hong Kong, electronicbase663 aka szeho663 is known on eBay as the “Grand Daddy of Fake Flash“. Why? Because this fake flash seller is very smart. The Grand Daddy of Fake Flash continues to out fox fake flash victims, eBay, PayPal and even to a degree, SOSFakeFlash and the FrankenFlash project. He is also shameless, addicted to fake flash selling and it’s profits.

If you bought a flash drive from him you have 1 chance in a million for a true capacity drive.

SOSFakeFlash chose to wait before publishing an alert on the new identity. Why? Yes we know by waiting victims are claimed. The fact is, he has so many victims already and going far back in time. Knowing that SOSFakeFlash was after him, he did what clever foxes do, dive deep into a fox hole. He even pulled a houdini – deregistered. When he thought the coast was clear, he climbed out of another fox hole reborn under a new identity – electronicbase663. No traces of szeho663 remain on eBay, you will only find it by checking his id history.

SOSFakeFlash is asking everyone who comes to this site and is a victim to join in and help out. Especially those who are victims of electronicbase663!

Read on to learn how and the history on this seller – the story of the Grand Daddy illustrates the problem with Fake Flash devices being sold on eBay. It is interesting, though his victims won’t appreciate this very much.

kun_elecshop99 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Deregistered High Alert China

kun_elecshop99 was an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in China kun_elecshop99 sold over 1200+ flash drives and memory cards. He was chased from eBay by Fake Flash Angels and forced to deregister on November 27th, 2008. Many of the auctions were private listings. This is a clear warning that a seller is engaging in the sale of fake flash. Flash devices sold for $10 to $20 do not qualify for a listing of this type and is in clear violation of eBay’s intent for such auctions. It is why this seller earned the wrath of Fake Flash Angels.

If you bought a memory card or a usb flash drive from this seller test immediately! You can still file a dispute with PayPal – but hurry before your claim time runs out.

jeffreylawchung Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert Hong Kong

jeffreylawchung is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in Hong Kong jeffreylawchung has sold over 1000+ flash drives so far. Currently offering 5 different 16GB models. If you have purchased a drive from this seller you must test it immediately to ensure that you have the true capacity before you store any data on it. If you do not test you are at risk of data loss.

slvrdrgn177 Ebay Fake Flash Seller High Alert USA

slvrdrgn177 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in the United States slvrdrgn177 has sold 350+ flash drives in an advertised capacity range of 8GB to 16GB. It is not the first time slvrdrgn177 has sold fake flash devices there is evidence dating back to the summer of 2008. This is his second round of fake flash selling.

elizmeliz Ebay Fake Flash Seller High Alert USA

elizmeliz is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in the United States elizmeliz has sold over 1810+ flash drives and offered 11 different listings – mainly in 16GB Advertised capacity. Promoting himself as a USA seller elizmeliz generates a false sense of security for buyers. There is evidence that this seller sold fake flash in the summer of 2008 as well. Many buyers are conned into believing the drives have a “detect” – there is nothing defective in digitally altering the drive to lie about it’s true capacity. It is also illegal.

changshengzhubao666 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert Deregistered China

changshengzhubao666 was an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in China this has sold over 490+ flash drives and offered 15 different model listings. changshengzhubao666 deregistered from eBay on December 7th, 2008. If you bought a flash drive from this seller you must test immediately. Do not store any data on the drive until you can confirm you have the advertised capacity – otherwise you are at risk of data loss. You can still file a claim against this seller with Paypal but hurry before your time window to dispute ends.

About VID PID Repairing Counterfeit Flash Drives – Steps To Succeed

FixFakeFlash from SOSFakeFlash, explains steps to rescue a fake flash (counterfeit) drive. How you can try to return it to its true size. Wrestling with FrankenFlash drives to make them useful is a mystery to most victims of fake flash drive purchases. The information FixFakeFlash has for you comes from the efforts of fake flash victims who succeeded in repairing their drives.

To repair counterfeit (fake) flash drives you need the VID and the PID for a flash drive. This will help you determine the software tool required to perform a low level reformatting (commonly known as reflashing). Reformatting in an operating system is “high level” and can not repair the drive. The controller on the flash drive has been reprogrammed to lie – this is why you normally need a special software tool. They exist and are available, but you need to know which one you must use for your drive.

The VID is the Vendor information, the PID is the flash chip controller information. The PID is supposed to identify the chip set family for a software reprogramming tool. How to find this information? The easiest way is to download a program called chipgenius – it will read the drive for you. Only if chipgenius does not find any useful information or the information does not match anything known on the internet should you consider taking your USB flash drive apart. Some drives do not come apart easily so avoid this unless you have no other choice. In most cases you will not have to consider doing this.

Follow these steps to begin the journey to fix and repair your fake USB flash drive to its real size:

SOSFakeFlash News Repairing Counterfeit Flash Drives New Site Up

If you are trying to repair a counterfeit flash drive but are confused or have not succeeded in doing so, there is good news. A new site in under construction to assist victims of fake flash devices attempting to turn false capacity flash drives (fakes, counterfeits) back into usable flash drives.

Update December 13th, 2008

The site is now up and available – note only known solutions are currently posted there.  The address is on our sites tab – Fix Fake Flash Devices.

Updated December 1oth, 2008

We’ve noticed increased traffic for people searching for solutions to repair their fake flash drives.  The new site is being built.  We have received some solutions but they are still few.   It you succeed in repairing your drive from information found at this site to help you, please take a little time and send us your solution (see below).  Help us to help others climb out of the fake flash pit.

December 3th 2008

The objective of this new site is to provide information on the subject and solutions with steps victims of fake flash can follow to reprogramme the devices. This new site will be educational and solutions oriented. SOSFakeFlash reports it will not be a download site – it will have links to sites that offer software. It is too early to tell if it will be possible to document all the flash controller chips as there are so many – it will also take time to build. To succeed in reprogramming fake flash there are common principals that can be extended to many different models. To help people understand and succeed – will be the first goal.

If you are a person who has succeeded in reprogramming a fake, please send your solution to SOSFakeflashdrive@gmail.com We are interested in your steps. Also the VID PID information you have, the program you used and if you purchased on eBay, the name of the fake flash seller and eBay item number to match against our database.

The earliest uptime for the new site will be after December 22nd, 2008. We will announce the url address as soon as it is available.

gally2841 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert UK 120GB 64GB Micro Vault

gally2841 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in the UK this little private seller holds a very special record – selling the “Biggest” false capacity size on record – a 120GB usb flash drive! SOSFakeFlash is aware that such drives are being advertised for sale (About Fake 64GB USB Pendrives – SONY MICRO VAULT and More )

gally2841 described the drive as:

High-speed USB 2.0 120Gb Micro Vault. USB Storage Media High Speed data transfer Read 12MB/sec (Max) Write 7Mb/Sec (max) PLEASE CHECK MY OTHER ITEMS AS I’VE ALSO GOT another RARE 120Gb Micro Vaults … yep that’s right 120Gb

gally2841 is right is it rare – few counterfeiters are so foolish to list a drive at that capacity. They are not available to the public at that size as the largest flash chip that currently be manufactured is 16GB and very costly to produce. Imagine how many you would need to get a 120GB drive in a pen stick! The drive would be thicker than the average adult thumb size!

Once more the Sony’s Micro Vault brand has been used. Fake Flash sellers are a real torn in Sony’s side – riding on the coat tails of this household electronic brand name!

Fortuately only 2 drives have been sold at 120GB and one at 64GB for a tidy sum of approximately £160’s.

Reported to SOSFakeFlash, RedHot120GB (Nom De Plume) had this to say:

Spent number of hours trying to get the drive to work. Only after searching on google was I aware of fake USBs. Have spoken with the seller and have printed copy below. Am pretty sure the seller will re-list it to recover costs.

RedHot120GB contacted gally2841 who replied:

“I will refund once the item has been returned.
However I must state that I didn’t list the item as Sony. It’s been
over one week since the item was posted to you and you never
confirmed receipt. I sent it special delivery at my cost. For this
reason I will refund excluding the postage once the item has
been returned. I’m sorry that your not statisfied but the item was
not listed as Sony. But as a 120Gb flash drive.”

– gally2841

Unbelievable but true. Not once did gally2841 admit to the drive being a fake!

RedHot120GB’s testing results:

Output:
The media is likely to be defective.
472.3 MByte OK (967325 sectors)
119.5 GByte DATA LOST (250623331 sectors)
Details:119.5 GByte overwritten (250623235 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
48 KByte corrupted (96 sectors)
2 KByte aliased memory (4 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x0000000004622200
Expected: 0x0000000004622200
Found: 0x3030303074327270
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 19.5 MByte/s
Reading speed: 15.4 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

RedHot120GB suffers the indignity of having purchased the biggest fake on record with SOSFakeFlash that was in fact the littlest flash drive on record. It only demonstrates what tools that digitally alter the true capacity can do to lie to the operating system. They can lie EXTREMELY BIG!

bazaarus Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert USA

bazaarus is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Memory Cards. Based in the United States bazaarus has been selling fake SanDisk memory cards. SOSFakeFlash received a heart wrenching report of wedding pictures lost – gone forever from one buyer. Another buyer, RickThePhotoGuy contacted SanDisk to verify if the cards being sold by bazaarus on ebay are really fakes – they confirmed the item was counterfeit.

RickThePhotoGuy documented the memory card for everyone with information provided from SanDisk. Please see this article:

eBay Fake SanDisk 8GB CF EXTREME III Memory Card CompactFlash – Anatomy of a Counterfeit Flash Card Exposed

To see what to do and how many we have on file read more on the alert.

usboasis Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert Hong Kong

usboasis is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB penstick drives. Based in Hong Kong usboasis is listing 7 different fake 16GB drive models. Negatives are pouring in as buyers are discovering the truth. SOSFakeFlash currently estimates over 1000+ false capacity flash drives have been sold. If you purchased a drive from this seller do not store any data on the penstick until you can confirm you have the advertised capacity. To see the models and also learn how you can help deal with this seller, read on.

platinum_auctions01 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert USA

platinum_auctions01 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in the United States has sold over 1000+ Flash drives. The most famous counterfeits are Kingston DataTravelers at 16GB. platinum_auctions01 tries to give you a false sense of security by promoting himself as a USA based seller and offering the extra value of fast and free shipping. If you bought a drive from this American seller please test your drives immediately! Do not fall for his standard reply about the flash drive being defective. There is nothing defective about a flash drive that has been digitally altered to report a larger capacity than the flash chip actually is – it is illegal and it is fraud.

mp3eternity Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert Hong Kong

mp3eternity is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB penstick drives. Based in Hong Kong mp3eternity is busy selling false capacity 16GB pen drives. Negatives are starting to pour in as buyers discover the truth about their digitally altered drives. It is estimated that over 1500+ fake flash devices have been sold.

memory_world1 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert United States

memory_world1 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in United States memory_world1 has listed 7 different 16GB flash drives and sold over 1,200+ drives. Once again proving that fake flash is being sold everywhere, there is no safe eBay buying country to be found. memory_world1 has also sold 8GB drives that look like the oldest and most traditional fake found.

Currently the last drive sold was on December 2nd, 2008. The first drive was sold on September 26th with a buy now price of only $14.98 US. Negatives are now pouring in. memory_world1 is very uncooperative and doesn’t appear bothered by ebay members upset at being sold fakes flash drives. Parting memory_world1 from his fake flash profits will be a challenge, refunding buyers in full is not what memory_world1 has in on his mind. If you bought a drive from memory_world1 – test it immediately. Do not store any data on it unless you can confirm you have the advertised capacity. To see his earnings and the models investigated read on.

hengtong8880 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert China

hengtong8880 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in China this seller offers a mixed product line, with 7 different 16GB models offered. Negatives are pouring in as these fake pendrives are being discovered by buyers losing data. Do not store any information on a drive purchased from hengtong8880 until you can confirm that you have the advertised capacity by using the program recommended by SOSFakeFlash – H2testw 1.4

digitexpert Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert Hong Kong

digitexpert is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB penstick drives. Based in Hong Kong this seller sells fake 16GB pen drives. You should test any flash pen drive purchased from digitexpert immediately to verify the advertised capacity. Do not store any information on the device until you can verify the true capacity with the software SOSFakeFlash recommends – H2testw 1.4.

upgrade_brother Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert Hong Kong

upgrade_brother is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB penstick drives.

Based in Hong Kong upgrade_brother is busy upgrading eBay Members to fake flash 32GB pen drives.

Do not store any data on a drive purchased from upgrade_brother until you have performed the testing and can confirm you have a 32GB drive.

peter112232 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert Deregistered China

peter112232 was an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in china peter112232 deregistered on November 19th, 2008. Selling mainly 16GB fake flash pen drives, 8GB memory cards with readers this seller padded his feedback score with other electronic items sold at extremely low prices.

If you bought from this seller you must test your drive immediately and file a claim quickly if you do not have the advertised capacity.