asperou1974 Ebay Fake Flash Seller High Alert – United Kingdom
Posted by KittyFireFlash on September 28, 2009
asperou1974 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake – false capacity) Flash USB drives. Registered in the United Kingdom asperou1974, has sold more then 200 64GB false capacity usb flash drives.
Please test your device to ensure you have the advertised capacity with H2testw to ensure you have the advertised capacity. 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.
Do a good deed. Warn other eBay buyers of fake flash. Save another person from a a fake flash nightmare and potential data loss. Read: How Contacting eBay Buyers OF Fake Memory Purchases Saves Others – A Victim’s Thank You!
To understand about Fake Flash Sellers Read:
- fengfeng_joy2008 Fraud – Conversations between THH And Fake Flash Seller On Fake 32GB Memory Cards. Tale of Denial, Bribery And Violation Of eBay’s Feedback Policies
- FAKE 16GB 32GB 64GB – Conversations Between A Fake Flash Seller and A Victim – The Truth About the Scam Exposed
A Victim’s insight: ebidetrade001 Ebay Fake Flash Seller High Alert Devious – Hong Kong
Victim consumer education on nand flash storage chips:
- Genuine Verses Fake Counterfeit USB Flash Drives – A Guide – USB Flash Chips Used – Grades A B C D
- What Are The Real Costs For Flash Chips In China? Guide 2009
Important Reading:
- PayPal Refunds Victim Of Fake – False Capacity USB Flash Drives Purchased On Ebay. 8 Month Battle Leads To Success.
- eBay – What To Do When Sellers Demands You Change Your Negative Feedback To Positive For A Refund Or Demands Positive As A Condition Of Refund – A Guide
- USB Flash Drives Best Price Bargains Fair Value To Sell Or Buy 8GB 16GB 32GB
- MP Players On Ebay – Current Prices For Cheap Fake 2GB 4GB 8GB 16GB 32 GB SOSFakeFlash’s Report
- SOSFakeFlash Consumer Education Week 20090605 – 20090612. The Problem of Counterfeit and Fake Memory Sold On Ebay
To see asperou1974’s negative feedback Please Click Here
September 27th, 2009 – we have 1 eBay listings confirmed fake.
The models sold under the eBay seller asperou1974 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 asperou1974, 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).
Should your device not report the true advertised capacity:
- 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.
- 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:
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PayPal Transaction Number
- Ebay Item Number
- Date Of PayPal Transaction
- Date Of eBay Item Listing
- Your eBayer Id
- Cite eBay Seller asperou1974
- The results from your testing with H2testw 1.4
- 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.
SOSFakeFlash 
neil said
here’s the email i’ve been trying to send ebayers which wont fit in the message box, so i’ve redirected them here:
Hello mate
firstly this isn’t spam, i’m emailing you to advise i am 99.9% sure you have bought a fake usb 64gb pen drive from asperou1974, Please read below which will explain why. I am emailing others to have this scam brought to the attention of ebay. I would suggest that as this guy has already sold 200 of these players that this is a fairly major fraud. Here’s an explanation as to how you have been fleeced. I first became suspicious as I was unable to format my drive properly to fat32 or ntfs using windows or external programmes. I then carried out an experiment copying an entire 1980’s series called ‘Dark Skies’ which is 7.59gb spanning 20 episodes. This should fit no problem right? as its supposed to be 64gb, it copies ok suggesting the drive is fine, however around about episode 11 onwards wont play from the stick on my pc however the first 10 episodes will (all 20 do play fine on my pc otherwise). The 10 episode are 3.7gb suggesting the real capacity of the memory stick was about 4gb’s. I used a programme called H2TESTW which carried out a full ‘write and verify process’ and indeed confirmed that 60gb of the usb drive is bogus and 4gb is real usable memory. The process is explained on this website and specifically in the paragraph cut and pasted below:
http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-37343-64gb-pendrive-file-disappears:-
“What they have done is, they take normal 256mb pen drives, they flash them and make the size show as 32 GB (64gb in your instance) or whatever.Thats what used to happen before, but now these fakes have become even more technologically advanced. Now your pen drive will store 32 GB (64gb), but it can never be copied back on to your computer or if it can be, the data is corrupted. Since it never stored the files, it merely stored the headers”.
The reason no-one else has cottoned on to ‘asperou1974’ is because most ‘joe public’ will just load a few files on and see it works and be chuffed, then leave good feedback before discovering somwhere down the line that a lot of the stuff they store on the device just doesn’t seem to work and will probably dismiss it as faulty rather than fake. However people who are a more on the ‘computer geek’ side of the fence like me 🙂 will ultimately discover that its a fraud, a quick check of the net will reveal this. I am concerned about how many people are being done. I know its only £18-£20 but to me its the principal of the matter. Try the programme H2TESTW for free and you will see that your’s is fake. I reported the scam to Ebay (awaiting the result) and the website below who have published it as an article, please email some others and make them aware, it’s only fair
regards,
Neil
InspectorTech said
The ebay message box has a character limitation. In composing a message use notepad. See if it fits, if not trim until it does.
The best thing to do is keep it short.
It is important to state facts, avoid emotions and untick the hiding of your email address. You can if you like put in sosfakeflash, but people should never code in full web url addresses for an ebay message.
If a person is warning buyers for a seller they did not buy from the message is a little different. Everyone who warns does it differently.
Trying to get everything you want to say into that little message box is not always easy.
Neil’s message is a good one for this alert! In fact all people have to do is warn about testing the size and to say google “asperou1974”. They will be here shortly. 🙂
TechChips said
Kudos to you Neil!
You demonstrate the noble spirit of eBay victims! People like you make the difference.
Success or failure of SOSFakeFlash depends on victims choosing to fight back and to help other victims.
Readers, where do you stand? When you find this site and use the information, do you contribute? Contact a few members for your seller and warn them to test? Or do you bargain with your fake flash memory seller and change your feedback to positive?
If you are shocked and horrified that you became a victim, do something like Neil is doing – save other buyers from data loss. March to Paypal, fight for your money back and do not let ebay, paypal or fake flash memory seller get away with it. If you left positive feedback, do follow up feedback to leave the truth about the seller – make a permanent record!
neil said
TechChips, thanks for the kind words,
cheers,
Neil