Archive for June, 2009
Posted by KittyFireFlash on June 23, 2009
chaogestore88 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) memory cards. Registered in China, chaogestore88 sold 16GB SDHC cards.
Important Reading:
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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Posted in Alert, Fake Flash China, Guilty | Tagged: China Fake Flash, eBay Fake Flash Guides, eBayFakeFlashSeller, Fake Memory Cards, Fraud USB Flash, SOSFakeFlash | Leave a Comment »
Posted by KittyFireFlash on June 23, 2009
anson528168 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Registered in China, anson528168 sold fake sony and kingston usb flash drives. anson528168 has been suspended.
not yet investigated:
anson528168 2510 0 New 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Memory Stick Pen Drive 16GB
anson528168 2508 0 New 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Memory Stick Pen Drive 16GB
Important Reading:
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.
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Posted by KittyFireFlash on June 22, 2009
super_store2009 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) memory cards. Registered in China super_store2009 has sold more than 1600+ 32GB fake memory cards so far. This seller also sold MP Players.
Like fake flash memory card seller adiandian3, has the same interesting “tell”. If you bought a memory card from this seller test it immediately and report in to SOSFakeFlash. File a claim with paypal immediately do not delay as super_store2009 is heading for a suspension if you make sure to act quickly and leave negative feedback.
Important Reading:
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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Posted in Alert, Fake Flash China, Guilty | Tagged: China Fake Flash, eBay Fake Flash Guides, eBayFakeFlashSeller, Fake Memory Cards, Fraud USB Flash, SOSFakeFlash | 2 Comments »
Posted by KittyFireFlash on June 22, 2009
adiandian3 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) memory cards. Registered in China adiandian3 has been suspended after having sold more than 3300+ adiandian3 earned over£40000 in sales with eBay only earning £100 in fees.
Please test these memory cards and report in to SOSFakeFlash. Do not delay in filing your paypal claim! Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Alert, eBaySellers, Fake Flash China | Tagged: China Fake Flash, eBay Fake Flash Guides, eBayFakeFlashSeller, Fake Memory Cards, Fraud USB Flash, SOSFakeFlash | 5 Comments »
Posted by KittyFireFlash on June 22, 2009
zjlee08 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) memory cards. Registered in China, zjlee08 has sold many fake 16GB and 32GB memory cards. Please test immediately to ensure you have the advertised capacity, file a claim with paypal immediately if you received false capacity. These cards are not defective, they have been digitially altered to lie about their real size. zjlee08 has recently sold more than 3000+ memory cards. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Alert, Fake Flash China, Guilty | Tagged: China Fake Flash, eBay Fake Flash Guides, eBayFakeFlashSeller, Fraud USB Flash, SOSFakeFlash | 3 Comments »
Posted by KittyFireFlash on June 22, 2009
sell_u_usb is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Registered in China sell_u_usb has been selling the oldest most classic fake on eBay.
not yet investigated:
Important Reading:
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.
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Posted by KittyFireFlash on June 22, 2009
wendy2008268 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Registered in China wendy2008268 sold fake 8GB memory pen sticks.
Important Reading:
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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Posted by KittyFireFlash on June 22, 2009
fantasic-ac is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Registered in China, fantasic-ac has been selling fake 16GB usb flash pensticks.
Important Reading:
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.
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Posted by KittyFireFlash on June 22, 2009
eac-buy is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Registered in Hong Kong eac-buy has been selling 16GB USB pen sticks.
Important Reading:
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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Posted in Alert, Fake Flash HK, Guilty | Tagged: Counterfeit Flash Drives, eBay Fake Flash Guides, eBayFakeFlashSeller, Fraud USB Flash, Hong Kong Fake Flash, SOSFakeFlash | Leave a Comment »
Posted by KittyFireFlash on June 21, 2009
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Alerts on fake flash eBay sellers will resume soon. Keep reporting in, we are entering the information as quickly as we can on your fake flash sellers.
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There is a very serious outbreak on 32GB memory cards an eBay. The numbers are mind numbing. The deadline to report for the next alerts is the end of Monday June 22nd, 2009 to be in the next series of alerts to be published.
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Don’t forget to leave the calling card of “SOSFakeFlash” and “H2testw” in your feedback – it helps people to find us and it let’s fake flash seller know their days are numbered.
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Please continue to patrol eBay to find obvious fakes. Contact buyers who left positive feedback to test their items and report in if they have a fake. Keep the pressure up on ebay, fake flash seller and paypal! They need it.
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Posted by KittyFireFlash on June 19, 2009
Did you find Kingston Kingston DT150 Counterfeit awareness day On June 17th informative? The problem is widespread on eBay and in many different countries.
Keep reporting in using the report a fake tab, we will enter your information into the database and after investigation, issue alerts.
There is a serious outbreak of fake 32GB MP Players on eBay. In the past months 16GB was the favorite false capacity size being offered. Now fraudsters are offering 32GB fakes!
If you bought this MP Player in any advertised size, test and report in immediately! We want all the seller id’s and especially the shipping addresses on envelopes and any “return” addresses sellers offer if they demand you send back for a refund.
Update June 21, 2009.
MP Player Education “Days” has been approved. It will be scheduled to start mid week and will run for several days. If you have an MP Player fake please report in quickly so you do not miss having your seller in the series. Do you know of good sites and resources for MP Players and fixing them? Let us know by writing to sosfakeflashdrive@gmail.com
Never throw away the shipping envelopes, they provide important clues to connect the dots between eBay seller id’s. Don’t forget to leave the calling card of “SOSFakeFlash” and “H2testw” in your feedback. It alerts other buyers from your fake flash seller.
Posted in News | Tagged: Fake MP Players, SOSFakeFlash | 6 Comments »
Posted by KittyFireFlash on June 17, 2009
Do you want to find out what the real capacity sizes are for usb flash drives manufactured by Kingston Technologies. It is easy with their feature for searching their consumer usb flash drive products. You can select the capacity and see which product lines offer the desired capacity. It is a great search consulting tool and part of Kingston’s effort to combat those who would like to sell cheap imitations of their products or try to super boost older models to report wild unrealistic capacity sizes to operating systems. To consumers these are known as counterfeits and fakes!
Almost all major brand names are currently under attack from counterfeiters. Two companies, Kingston and Sony are fighting back. Kingston is applying additional effort to aid consumers world wide. They have a serial verification site and now have improved their search feature to show what are the capacity sizes they manufactured for a particular product line. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Advice, Articles - Choice, Flash Drive Education | Tagged: FakeFlashNews, FlashDriveFacts, FrankenFlash Project, Kingston USB Flash Drives Genuine, SOSFakeFlash | Leave a Comment »
Posted by KittyFireFlash on June 17, 2009
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.
Important Reading:
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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Posted by KittyFireFlash on June 17, 2009
Kidprimis is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Kingston DT150 64GB Flash USB drives and is registered in the United States.
Important Reading:
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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Posted in Alert, Fake Flash USA, Guilty | Tagged: Counterfeit Flash Drives, Counterfeit Kingston DT150 64GB DataTraveler, eBay Fake Flash Guides, eBayFakeFlashSeller, Fraud USB Flash, SOSFakeFlash, USA Fake Flash | Leave a Comment »
Posted by KittyFireFlash on June 17, 2009
leazo413226556 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Kingston DT150 64GB Flash USB drives. leazo413226556 is registered in Belgium.
Important Reading:
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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Posted in Alert, Fake Flash EU, Guilty | Tagged: Counterfeit Flash Drives, Counterfeit Kingston DT150 64GB DataTraveler, eBay Fake Flash Guides, eBayFakeFlashSeller, EU Fake Flash, Fraud USB Flash, SOSFakeFlash | Leave a Comment »
Posted by KittyFireFlash on June 17, 2009
cybershotdude is is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Kingston DT150 64GB Flash USB drives. Registered in the United Kingdom cybershotdude hides what he sells using private auctions. This seller also offers SONY 16GB PRO DUO MEMORY STICK CARD FOR psp camera and SanDisk Extreme III SD Card SDHC memory cards.
The counterfeit Kingston DT150 64GB Flash USB issue has spread rapidly to eBay sites in Europe.
Important Reading:
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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Posted in Alert, Fake Flash UK, Guilty | Tagged: Counterfeit Flash Drives, Counterfeit Kingston DT150 64GB DataTraveler, eBay Fake Flash Guides, eBayFakeFlashSeller, Fraud USB Flash, SOSFakeFlash, UK Fake Flash | 1 Comment »
Posted by KittyFireFlash on June 17, 2009
hausmanjacob is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Kingston DT150 64GB Flash USB drives. Registered in the United Kingdom hausmanjacob not only sold them individually but in lots of 5!
Important Reading:
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.
Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by KittyFireFlash on June 17, 2009
celikengin is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Kingston DT150 64GB Flash USB drives. Registered in Belgium, celikengin was caught.
The problem with counterfeit DT150 64GB and 32GB Kingston usb flash drives continues on eBay. All eBay sellers who sell usb flash drives must test these items carefully with software such as H2testw. A proper test is not simply plugging in the device to see what is reported by the operating system. False capacity usb flash drives are digitally altered to trick the operating system about the actual capacity.
SOSFakeFlash advises eBay members not buy any Kingston USB flash drives on eBay, it is not safe. If you buy from a on authorized Kingston reseller or distributor, your chances of receiving a fake is extremely high. celikengin was not an authorized reseller. The majority of those who sell Kingston products on eBay are not authorized resellers – they pick up merchandize from Chinese wholesale ring sites in the orient. These sites are infested with counterfeits. There are no super cheap bargains. Be very careful of sellers and do your homework on what Kingston offers first.
Do you think celikengin is the only eBay seller who got into trouble or is the only seller heading for trouble? SOSFakeFlash has many alerts and articles on the subject. Here is a listing recently found to demonstrate the issue.
Just discovered for sale on eBay by seller baby_rose_petal registered in the United Kingdom is a 128GB Kingston usb flash drive.
More than 10? Frightening!
Really? The seller uses it and it works? Well SOSFakeFlash invites eBay seller baby_rose_petal to contact Kingston immediately! Kingston Technologies will be very surprised to discover they have a 128GB usb flash drive of this model on the market! They only announced the the very first 128GB flash drive on 15th of June – and it looks nothing like the picture below!! The 128GB model will not be available except on special order for some time to come – so don’t expect to see them retailing in stores or on the Internet.
You see, no one as of June 2009 has a 128GB usb penstick flash drive available on the retail market.
Kingston Technologies engraves the capacity on their connectors for higher capacity against counterfeiting nowadays. So this usb flash drive even without investigated testing is a FAKE! Counterfeit! Why? Kingston never made it and no 128GB usb pensticks are available to consumers on the general retail market.
Does seller baby_rose_petal know? SOSFakeFlash is not sure but given the information provided by the seller about owning and using one to reassure buyers we suspect he does. With over 10 for sale, baby_rose_petal is likely to have an alert published on him soon, just as clinking now has one. SOSFakeFlash simply does not have the manpower to contact each and every want-to-be Kingston USB flash drive seller on eBay to warn them to test their product!
It is a sellers responsibility to research and test technology items they wish to offer for sale.
Important Reading:
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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