guruelectronics Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – USA

guruelectronics is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in the United States, guruelectronics has finally been caught! Investigated and confirmed as a seller of fake flash usb drives. SOSFakeFlash was aware of this seller for months. Unfortuantely without evidence little can be done against a suspected seller on eBay. The model now on record for guruelectronics is one of the most famous in the fake flash usb flash drive line.

guruelectronics is estimated to have sold many, not just in single units, but in lots as high as one hundred. If you bought this drive:

Do not use it to store data without testing with H2testw 1.4 to ensure the advertised capacity matches actual capacity. This drive typically has a 2GB flash chip. Do not attempt to repair this drive by opening it to find the controller chip or flash drive serial. The circuit board is glued with epoxy to hold it to the bottom casing. If you seperate the bottom to see the flash chip, the drive will in future wiggle and slide in the casing.

Under no circumstances should you accept any excuses from guruelectronics about the drive being “defective“. A digitally altered flash drive is not defective, it has been reprogrammed to lie about it’s true size.

guruelectronics attempted convince customers usb flash drives being sold were of the correct size:

The only thing this picture shows is what the operating system “sees” or is led to believe the size is. The point of reprogramming is to trick the operating system into seeing a larger size than the drive actually is. H2testw 1.4 can detect this. When drives are opened and chips decoded, they only confirm what H2testw 1.4 already reported.

SOSFakeFlash advises that one should never accept a demonstration of what the operating system sees as “proof” for a usb flash drive’s capacity. Just too many people have fallen for this demonstration and have been conned into believing the drive was just a lemon – defective. This is precisely what a seller of fake flash usb drives wants you to believe. The last thing they want anyone to realize is that a digitally altered drive has been purchased. It would spoil their sales, profit and eventually get them shutdown on eBay.

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February 7th, 2009 – we have 1 eBay listings confirmed fake.

This is the model sold under the eBay seller guruelectronics 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 guruelectronics, 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).

TheModel sold by guruelectronics:

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:

complaint-response@paypal.com

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 guruelectronics
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:

SOSFakeFlashDrive@gmail.com

on your correspondence.