powerrangolee Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – Hong Kong
Posted by KittyFireFlash on January 3, 2009
powerrangolee is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in Hong KOng this seller is estimated to have sold over 2000+ usb flash drives. If you bought a drive from this seller, do not store any data on the drive – TEST first!
To see powerrangolee’s negative feedback Please Click Here
January 2nd, 2009 – we have 1 eBay listings confirmed fake.
powerrangolee’s recent earnings:
Items Sold: 80.61%
Total Value Sold: £17526.66
Total Value Shipping: £0.00
Total Value Not Sold: £644.37
Sold Item Fees: £694.50
Unsold Item Fees: £168.90
This is the model sold under the eBay seller powerrangolee 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 powerrangolee, 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).
This is the Model sold by powerrangolee
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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:
complaint-response@paypal.com
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 XXXXXXXXX
- 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:
SOSFakeFlashDrive@gmail.com
on your correspondence.
SOSFakeFlash 
akuzi said
Yes, the metal flash disks are nice but it is being passed off as a 16 gigger but really only a 4 gigger. And looking at his feedback, a lot of people are buying them not realising what the real capacity of them are. Excellent website SOS! Keep up the good work! regards,
Lee.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=250346068929
The media is likely to be defective.
3.9 GByte OK (8181376 sectors)
11.7 GByte DATA LOST (24553856 sectors)
Details:0 KByte overwritten (0 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
11.7 GByte corrupted (24553856 sectors)
0 KByte aliased memory (0 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x00000000f9ad0000
Expected: 0x00000000f9ad0000
Found: 0x0000000000000000
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 6.75 MByte/s
Reading speed: 10.1 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
CHIPGENIUS—
Device Name: +[F:]+USB Mass Storage Device(Generic Flash Disk USB Device)
PnP Device ID: VID = 0000 PID = 7777
Serial Number: 1F2F8DBF
Revision: 8.00
Device Type: Standard USB device – USB2.0 High-Speed
Chip Vendor: Alcor
Chip Part-Number: AU6983
Product Vendor: (N/A)
Product Model: U
akuzi said
The tool fixed it to a 4gb drive. thanks.
AlcorMP(081208).rar