SOSFakeFlash News June 30th, 2009
Posted by KittyFireFlash on June 30, 2009
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www.kingstonusbcf.com a notorious website for selling counterfeit Kingston products is still active. It still inserts itself into many websites that discuss usb flash drives. At the moment google has not removed it’s ability to advertise. As a result the number of people who are frauded continue to grow.
The new eBay fake flash sellers list will be released on July 1st, 2009. The current list is retired and comments closed.
MP Player consumer education week ends today. A summary will be published on July 1st, with the current bid prices by advertised capacity on eBay along with all eBay seller id’s investigated to have sold false capacity MP Players.
SOSFakeFlash is asking all eBay members who bought a false capacity MP Player to take a more active and aggressive role in shutting down these ebay sellers. Victims of fake usb flash drives and memory cards are also invited to assist. The reasons why will be revealed in the summary article to be published on July 1st, 2009 titled: MP Players On Ebay – Current Prices For Cheap Fake 2GB 4GB 8GB 16GB 32 GB SOSFakeFlash’s Report
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Ed Stetser said
I have just spent a little over two hours reading and studying this website about using your software to discover if my 32GB SD cards are fake. After all this time, I am still clueless about how to find any information, or any link, to your program or software that will actually do the analysis. All I have been able to find so far is information about the software and about how great it is. OK, I’m convinced it works. Now — can you please tell me where it is, how do I find it so I can put it to work to tell me if my SD cards are fake? I know I have experienced great difficulty in formatting the cards but once I was able to get them formatted, they seem to be functioning properly. (I never was successful in formatting the cards using Windows Vista. I had to use a disk management utility program to format both 32GB SD cards). By the way, each of my two cards came from different ebay sellers — One in California and the other one in Hong Kong. Windows Vista, Windows XP and DOS all report that they are 32GB with zero MB used. I have been able to write 32GB of data to them and I have been able to then read that data. I have been able to continually write and read data without Windows reporting any errors.
Also, assuming I have a fake card (actually, 2 of them) is there some reason I should not call my credit card company and tell them of the fraudulent transaction and have them give me credit for the transaction on my credit card, at which time they go after the seller and I am out of the picture?
Also, I am involved in a transaction with 2 different sellers on ebay involving transactions that fit the description concerning the fake SD Memory cards – where the seller’s Pay Pal account is closed and he is asking me to pay him through his email address. I have discussed these transactions with ebay (in their chat-room-support) and they have advised me to not pay my seller through their email address. I have not, and I will not, pay him through his email address.
Thanks for your help.
TechChips said
The links to down load the software are at the bottom of the top post at this site:
H2testw 1.4 – Gold Standard In Detecting USB Counterfeit Drives
Can’t miss it.