arifqammar Fake Flash Seller Alert – Ukraine

arifqammar is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in the Ukraine arifqammar was a victim of fake flash converted to the dark side. He sold an assortment of fake 16GB usb flash drives and on record, 32GB Kingston DataTraveler flash drives. If you bought from this seller you are at risk of data loss. Report in to SOSFakeFlash if your testing confirms you have a false capacity device.

See Ebay Fake Flash Seller arifqammar – A Mystery In The Ukraine for background information.

tronicguard Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – China

tronicguard is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in China this seller also sells MP Players and memory cards – not yet confirmed to be of false capacity. This seller deals in astonishing volume!

tronicgaurd uses the “F”- word with eBayers, something to cause other fake flash sellers on eBay to shudder. For most fake flash sellers, there is an ettiquette to robbing you – with politeness. tronicgaurd seems to have skipped the course on fake flash seller manners. But then he is in a hurry, money calls.

If you bought a usb flash drive from him you are at risk of data loss. We advise you test anything you bought from this seller to ensure you have the advertise capacity. Report in to SOSFakeFlash if your testing confirms you have a false capacity device.

So what does he sell?

shaosan08 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – China

shaosan08 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) MP Players. Based in China, shaosan08 is the master of fake 8GB MP Player selling on eBay – current estimates 5000+. He has been around a long time and he will have you believe that your MP Player is “defective”. He will demand you send it back for a refund (so he can sell to someone else?). 2GB is the rule for what he sells, if you got more, we want to hear from you with your proof! Like the Grand Daddy of fake flash, szeho663 aka electronicbase663 he is eBay’s pet. Want to know why?

Report in to SOSFakeFlash if your testing confirms you have a false capacity device.

hellopetpet Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – Hong Kong

hellopetpet is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in Hong Kong hellopetpet has been confirmed to have sold a counterfeit 32GB Transcend flash drive – JetFlash V30. hellopetpet also sold other 16GB flash drive models If you bought any usb flash drive from this seller you risk data loss.Report in to SOSFakeFlash if your testing confirms you have a false capacity device.

For other articles on Transcend see:

• Transcend 32GB Counterfeit USB Flash Drive Found On eBay – Latest Brand Name To Impacted – JetFlash V30
• Guide – Protect Yourself Against Counterfeit Fake Transcend USB Flash Drives – Product Verification

safe2star Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert Devious – Hong Kong

safe2star is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) MP Players. Based in Hong Kong safe2star is estimated to have sold over 2000+ MP Players. safe2star has used private auctions to hide his fake flash selling. Report in to SOSFakeFlash if your testing confirms you have a false capacity device.

fung60200155 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – Hong Kong

fung60200155 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) MP Players. Based in Hong Kong fung60200155 has sold over 2000+

Report in to SOSFakeFlash if your testing confirms you have a false capacity device.

touch.sound Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – China

touch.sound is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) MP Players. Based in China touch.sound sold hundreds of MP Players. They are not defective, they have been digitally altered to report a larger capacity.If you bought one from this seller test it immediately.

 

Report in to SOSFakeFlash if your testing confirms you have a false capacity device.

eddyunoseller2008 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – Hong Kong

eddyunoseller2008 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) MP Players and Memory cards. Please test anything you bought from this seller immediately.

Report in to SOSFakeFlash if your testing confirms you have a false capacity device.

Transcend 32GB Counterfeit USB Flash Drive Found On eBay – JetFlash V30

Transcend joins Sony and Kingston to have counterfeit USB Flash Drives sold on eBay. JetFlash V30 line had a maximum genuine capactiy of 16GB in size. Transcend, like Kingston uses colour coding to distinguish different capacities. Currently targeted by counterfeit flash sellers is the 4GB model that is being supersized to astonishing 32GB capacity. It this 4GB model is also pretenting to confuse and to sneak in at 16GB a genuine size. Only the true 16GB has the pink band not green.

Sold on eBay by hellopetpet was a 32GB Flash drive.

Notice the colour band is green. The colour coding chart for the JetFlash V30 shows:

So green would be a 4GB usb flash drive and not a 32GB flash drive. The ebayer who performed the testing with H2testw 1.4 reported what size? 4GB!

This same model (green code) is for sale right now on ebay as 16GB by…

FakeFlashNews Releases a New Guide – Protect Yourself Against Counterfeit Fake Transcend USB Flash Drives – Product Verification

FakeFlashNews has just released a new guide to help people detect genuine usb flash drives made by Transcend from counterfeits. Transcend now joins Sony and Kingston to have counterfeit usb flash drives sold on eBay. Read Guide – Protect Yourself Against Counterfeit Fake Transcend USB Flash Drives – Product Verification

Kingston USB Flash Drives – Detect Counterfeits And Fakes – Product Verification

Did you buy an 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, 120GB, 128GB or 256GB Kingston USB Flash drive you think is a fake or counterfeit? Countries in Asia are very vunerable to these counterfeit items, but Europe and even North America are experiencing an increase of these items circulating for sale. What does Kingston have to say? Is there a tool you can use to check quickly to determine if you have an authentic item? Yes Kingston is aware of the problem and they have set up a web page to help. Yes there is a tool.   SOSFakeFlash also found technical support numbers you can call.

Updated – 20100226.

honchai9974 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – United Kingdom

honchai9974 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash Kingston USB drives. Based in the United Kingdom, honchai9974 has been identified selling Kingston Counterfeits in multiple units mode per listing. Not confirmed but recently sold are “REFURBISH 4GB SANDISK EXTREME IV CF CARD” using a picture for 8GB. This may be an oversight but very odd. SOSFakeFlash does not know if “refusbished” means reprogramming to the real size or not.

honchai9974 has unfortuantely trapped himself, and we have a serious message for eBay and Paypal regarding Kingston Counterfeit flash drives. This is one article you just can’t pass up reading!