kurth912 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – Germany

kurth912 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Kingston DT150 64GB Flash USB drives. kurth912 is registered Germany. Oddly kurth912 listed the drives as “used”. He advertised as as:

Der USB-Flashspeicher DataTraveler 150 ist mobiler Speicher der neuen Art. Mit einer Speicherkapazität von 64 GB erfüllt er jeden Anspruch. So haben auch kostenbewusste Anwender reichlich Speicher zur Verfügung und können bis zu 64 GB Daten auf einem einzigen Gerät speichern und mitnehmen. Dabei ist der DataTraveler 150 nicht größer als ein Taschenmesser. Zum Speichern werden die Dateien auf das Laufwerk gezogen und abgelegt. Einfacher geht es nicht!

Rough Machine Translation To English:

The USB Flash Memory DataTraveler 150 is the new mobile memory Art With a storage capacity of 64 GB, he met every requirement. Thus, even cost-conscious users plenty of memory available and can accommodate up to 64 GB of data on a single device and go. This is the Data Traveler 150 not bigger than a pocketknife. To save the files on the drive is pulled and stored. It’s that easy!

And put in his listing:

Privatverkauf, daher keine Garantie, kein Umtausch und keine Rücknahme.

Rough Machine Translation To English:

Private sale, no warranty, no exchange and no returns.

Sorry kurth912, a fake is a fake and you can not slither away from your responsibilities in having sold counterfeit Kingston DT150 64GB Flash drives.

Entschuldigung kurth912, eine Fälschung ist eine Fälschung, und Sie können nicht glitschen weg von Ihrer Verantwortung in der nach dem Verkauf gefälschter Kingston DT150 64 GB Flash-Laufwerke.

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

Don’t forget to leave the calling card of “SOSFakeFlash” and “H2testw” in your feedback to help others. Do not change your feedback to get a refund – you will only create more victims. See what we have on file.

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June 15th, 2009 – we have 1 eBay listings confirmed fake.

The models sold under the eBay seller kurth912 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 items from kurth912, you should test immediately with the software H2testw 1.4 . Do not store any important information until you can confirm you have the advertised capacity (minus formatting overhead).

Sold by kurth912

Should your device not report the true advertised capacity:

1. Immediately attempt to move any data you have stored on it 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 kurth912
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.