cy.yaya aka yaya06032009 eBay Fake Flash Memory Seller Renames Id To Escape SOSFakeFlash. Private Auctions Leathal Fraud.
Posted by KittyFireFlash on April 14, 2010
cy.yaya eBay devious fake flash memory seller is not happy. He changed his id from yaya06032009 in an attempt to escape the consumer alert issued by SOSFakeFlash.
eBay sellers of hacked usb flash drives are learning private auction listings will no longer protect them from frauded buyers. It might take a little longer for them to be detected but not as long as it used to. The secret about fake memory being sold on eBay is no longer a secret.
FakeMemorySentinel published:
yaya06032009 eBay Flash Memory Seller China – Test Immediately!
Then SOSFakeFlash published:
yaya06032009 Ebay Fake Flash Memory Seller Alert Devious – China
If a fraudulent seller tries to pull a houdini, they will not get very far. cy.yaya aka yaya06032009, case in point.
Monitor cy.yaya aka yaya06032009 negative and neutral feedback
SOSFakeFlash 
Greg White said
Bought this drive from yaya about a month ago…got refund and then some. He/She has been bugging the crap out of me to remove my negative feedback. I revised it to show they made good with the refund, but I won’t dare say anything else, since the drive I bought was sold as a 16GB drive, and it tested as a 2GB drive. Luckily, and thanks to SOS, I was able to reformat the drive back to it’s original 2GB size and make it usable again. So, I made out with a refund and got to keep the drive. Thanks, YaYa for a crappy, yet oddly satisfying transaction! 🙂
red said
Greg,
Good on you for not changing your negative feedback!
They currently have no items listed. Could be on their way to suspension or in hibernation.
Consider warning other buyers:
Daffyd K Jones said
I bought a ’16gb’ USB drive from this guy 2 weeks ago. Today got an email from eBay Loss Prevention department saying the listing had been removed because of suspected fraud, and asking me to file a paypal dispute to get my money back. Grrr….
QUOTE:
We’re writing to let you know that the listing for the following item you bid on has been removed:
220588226377 – 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Memory 16G Thumb Drive Pen Stick C
We strongly recommend that you do not complete this purchase. Purchases of items listed on eBay but then completed outside of eBay are extremely risky. They are not covered by eBay buyer protection programs and are highly susceptible to fraud.
For more information on offers to buy or sell outside of eBay, copy this link into a new browser window:
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/rfe-spam-non-ebay-sale.html
***If You Have Already Paid Using PayPal***
If you have already paid for this item but have not received it, please remember these important steps:
? A buyer has 45 days after the date of the payment to open a dispute.
? A dispute can be escalated to a claim within 20 days from when the dispute was filed.
? Buyers must wait at least 10 days from the date of payment to escalate a dispute for an item not received.
? If the dispute is not escalated to a claim within 20 days, PayPal will close the dispute. A closed dispute cannot be reopened or escalated to a PayPal claim.
? When the 20-day deadline is approaching, PayPal will remind you by email and in the “Resolution Center.”
You can learn more about the PayPal Dispute Resolution process by reviewing step-by-step tutorials in the Resolution Center after logging into PayPal.com.
***If you’ve already paid by a means other than PayPal***
? If you paid by Western Union or MoneyGram, contact the company directly (Western Union: 0800 833 833 – Outside the UK, call +353 1 24 97 214 or MoneyGram +800 8971 8971).
? Contact your bank to stop payment if you paid by cheque.
? Contact your credit card company if you paid by credit card.
Our goal is to keep eBay safe so you can buy confidently. It’s rare that something goes wrong with a transaction on eBay. Whenever these events do occur, we try to help as much as possible to resolve the issue.
KittyFireFlash said
Daffyd,
please update us with your progress. Thank you for the excellent documentation.
As for eBay saying:
We have only one response. Who are they trying to kid? RARE? As this site documents, it is not rare at all.
eBay and fake flash seller hope that victims think they are alone. Divide. Conquer. Both would have you believe you are the exception. Nothing is further from the truth.
It is interesting to see eBay recommend things we have been promoting for 2 years.
SOSFakeFlash has one message for victims – use your head and do not believe a fake flash memory sellers whining tall tails or eBay attempting to make you believe your situation is unique. It is not.
95% of all listings for usb flash drives, memory cards or mp players are for fakes! False capacity. Buy these items on eBay, and you are likely to visit this site!
Daffyd K Jones said
I got a refund from Paypal in the end. Took months of wrangling though, I thought since ebay and paypal are now the same company they would work together better. But even though ebay admitted it was a fraudulent listing paypal wouldn’t pay up for ages. So much for buyer protections.
Oh well, i got the money in the end, and managed to convert the USB drive into a working 64MB one(!)