eBay Victims Conclusions On Fake Flash USB Pendrives Drives Sold On eBay

Victims of fake mp players, usb flash drives and memory cards purchased on eBay learn a very hard and disturbing lesson. Not only do they lose money, they lose data. eBay members also learn the chilling truth about “buyer experience improvements” on eBay and on “Buyer Protection” offered by PayPal. Many leave eBay. Many never see a refund as PayPal wears them down with a game of email round robins, the stop watch ticking against the eBayer with time limits for claims.

One ebay member has something he would like to share with you. We are interested in your opinions.

guruelectronics Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – USA

guruelectronics is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in the United States, guruelectronics has finally been caught! Investigated and confirmed as a seller of fake flash usb drives. SOSFakeFlash was aware of this seller for months. Unfortuantely without evidence little can be done against a suspected seller on eBay. The model now on record for guruelectronics is one of the most famous in the fake flash usb flash drive line.

Buying Kingston and Sony USB Flash Drives On eBay Safely – A Guide

If you exercise care and research you can buy genuine Kingston and Sony USB Flash drives on eBay. You need to do your homework first! While listings for on branded false capacity usb Flash drives are going down on eBay, the issue of counterfeits for these two brand names has as yet, not been addressed.

Please review the information presented to help you find the genuine capacity items for both Kingston and Sony usb flash drives on eBay.

What Is It That eBay Sellers of Fake Flash Devices Using Private Auctions Just Don’t Understand?

It is no secret that eBay is NOT the place to buy flash devices such as usb flash drives, memory cards or MP Players. There are genuine sellers of these items on eBay but they are few and hard to find -buried under the cheap and not so cheap fake flash heap. The traffic in counterfeit and fake (flash capacity) has been around for a long time on eBay, old eBay members say it dates back to 2003 but most internet evidence starts appearing in 2005.

eBay Fake Flash sellers come and go. The most recent trend is to use Private Auctions so that there is no evidence of what was purchased. This is against the intent eBay had for the use of such listing. Like other fake flash sellers they do get found out. But these sellers add to their crimes when they are caught by a member. SOSFakeFlash has seen this repeatedly in eight months of investigating.

Seeing it is believing it. Here is one of the most obvious and glaring examples.

What Do eBay Fake Flash Sellers jinyu_zheng, dai_xinyu, zhujunpeibay Have In Common?

jinyu_zheng, dai_xinyu, zhujunpeibay are all documented and investigated eBay Fake Flash Sellers. What do these sellers have in common? Are you interested? Curious? This article is not going to be pleasant for some to read.

Buying On eBay – MP Players – Memory Cards – USB Flash drives – Why You should Use A Credit Card To Pay And Not Your Bank Account

The evidence gathered in the last eight months by the FrankenFlash Project and their groups indicates that buying MP Players, USB Flash Drives and Memory Cards is a very risky business. You will find more than enough documented evidence at sosfakeflash.wordpress.com.

So if you are going to bid and buy on eBay why use a credit card instead of bank account funding?

eBay Private Auction Listings – eBay Fake Flash Sellers Prefer – Victims Learn The Meaning The Hard Way – A Guide

eBay sellers of fake flash MP Players, memory cards and usb flash drives prefer private auction listings. They avoid detection the longest, make antonishing profit and create the longest list of victims who will be made obsured by this listing category. Sellers who use this listing type are not found only in the Orient, you will find them everywhere including in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe. Some begin selling this way, others resort to this listing type when negative feedback starts to come in revealing the truth about what they are selling.

What Do eBay Fake Flash Sellers zhidao16888 – jingpinwu688 – hxiongxu Have In Common?

zhidao16888, jingpinwu688, hxiongxu are all documented and investigated eBay Fake Flash Sellers. What do these sellers have in common? Are you interested? Curious?

eBay Fake Flash Plague How Many Countries Have Been Impacted By Fake Flash Memory Cards – USB Drives – MP Players?

eBay is one of the major distribution conduits on a global scale for fake (false capacity) flash memory cards, usb drives and MP Players. It has been for quiet a few years. The damage in data loss, financial loss and personal trauma to eBay members can not fully measured. Only eBay has the data, or so they would like to think.

The FrankenFlash Project is releasing in this article the countries and tallies reported for an eight month period. But first a little background on how it all started…

electronicbase663 aka szeho663 Ebay Grand Daddy of Fake Flash Seller Alert Hong Kong

electronicbase663 formerly known under szeho663 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in Hong Kong, electronicbase663 aka szeho663 is known on eBay as the “Grand Daddy of Fake Flash“. Why? Because this fake flash seller is very smart. The Grand Daddy of Fake Flash continues to out fox fake flash victims, eBay, PayPal and even to a degree, SOSFakeFlash and the FrankenFlash project. He is also shameless, addicted to fake flash selling and it’s profits.

If you bought a flash drive from him you have 1 chance in a million for a true capacity drive.

SOSFakeFlash chose to wait before publishing an alert on the new identity. Why? Yes we know by waiting victims are claimed. The fact is, he has so many victims already and going far back in time. Knowing that SOSFakeFlash was after him, he did what clever foxes do, dive deep into a fox hole. He even pulled a houdini – deregistered. When he thought the coast was clear, he climbed out of another fox hole reborn under a new identity – electronicbase663. No traces of szeho663 remain on eBay, you will only find it by checking his id history.

SOSFakeFlash is asking everyone who comes to this site and is a victim to join in and help out. Especially those who are victims of electronicbase663!

Read on to learn how and the history on this seller – the story of the Grand Daddy illustrates the problem with Fake Flash devices being sold on eBay. It is interesting, though his victims won’t appreciate this very much.

gally2841 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert UK 120GB 64GB Micro Vault

gally2841 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in the UK this little private seller holds a very special record – selling the “Biggest” false capacity size on record – a 120GB usb flash drive! SOSFakeFlash is aware that such drives are being advertised for sale (About Fake 64GB USB Pendrives – SONY MICRO VAULT and More )

gally2841 described the drive as:

High-speed USB 2.0 120Gb Micro Vault. USB Storage Media High Speed data transfer Read 12MB/sec (Max) Write 7Mb/Sec (max) PLEASE CHECK MY OTHER ITEMS AS I’VE ALSO GOT another RARE 120Gb Micro Vaults … yep that’s right 120Gb

gally2841 is right is it rare – few counterfeiters are so foolish to list a drive at that capacity. They are not available to the public at that size as the largest flash chip that currently be manufactured is 16GB and very costly to produce. Imagine how many you would need to get a 120GB drive in a pen stick! The drive would be thicker than the average adult thumb size!

Once more the Sony’s Micro Vault brand has been used. Fake Flash sellers are a real torn in Sony’s side – riding on the coat tails of this household electronic brand name!

Fortuately only 2 drives have been sold at 120GB and one at 64GB for a tidy sum of approximately £160’s.

Reported to SOSFakeFlash, RedHot120GB (Nom De Plume) had this to say:

Spent number of hours trying to get the drive to work. Only after searching on google was I aware of fake USBs. Have spoken with the seller and have printed copy below. Am pretty sure the seller will re-list it to recover costs.

RedHot120GB contacted gally2841 who replied:

“I will refund once the item has been returned.
However I must state that I didn’t list the item as Sony. It’s been
over one week since the item was posted to you and you never
confirmed receipt. I sent it special delivery at my cost. For this
reason I will refund excluding the postage once the item has
been returned. I’m sorry that your not statisfied but the item was
not listed as Sony. But as a 120Gb flash drive.”

– gally2841

Unbelievable but true. Not once did gally2841 admit to the drive being a fake!

RedHot120GB’s testing results:

Output:
The media is likely to be defective.
472.3 MByte OK (967325 sectors)
119.5 GByte DATA LOST (250623331 sectors)
Details:119.5 GByte overwritten (250623235 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
48 KByte corrupted (96 sectors)
2 KByte aliased memory (4 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x0000000004622200
Expected: 0x0000000004622200
Found: 0x3030303074327270
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 19.5 MByte/s
Reading speed: 15.4 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

RedHot120GB suffers the indignity of having purchased the biggest fake on record with SOSFakeFlash that was in fact the littlest flash drive on record. It only demonstrates what tools that digitally alter the true capacity can do to lie to the operating system. They can lie EXTREMELY BIG!

bazaarus Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert USA

bazaarus is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Memory Cards. Based in the United States bazaarus has been selling fake SanDisk memory cards. SOSFakeFlash received a heart wrenching report of wedding pictures lost – gone forever from one buyer. Another buyer, RickThePhotoGuy contacted SanDisk to verify if the cards being sold by bazaarus on ebay are really fakes – they confirmed the item was counterfeit.

RickThePhotoGuy documented the memory card for everyone with information provided from SanDisk. Please see this article:

eBay Fake SanDisk 8GB CF EXTREME III Memory Card CompactFlash – Anatomy of a Counterfeit Flash Card Exposed

To see what to do and how many we have on file read more on the alert.

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About Fake 64GB USB Pendrives – SONY MICRO VAULT and More

Fake Flash continues to be sold on eBay. Recently fake Sony Micro Vault flash pendrives at an audacious 64GB capacity size appeared for sale. These flash drives have even been traced to manufactuer showrooms in china. Recently joining SOSFakeflash to fight and hunt down sources of fake flash our newest detective – known as “Superman “, saved an eBay seller – dragging him to safety away from fake flash selling. Here is what superman reports on Sony Flash Drives along with an update from FakeStopper’s most recent research on flash drive manufacturing in china:

Repairing Counterfeit Flash Drives

SOSFakeFlash has been asked by many victims of fake flash drive purchases – how to restore to the original true capacity? Electrostorm has provided excellent information to the tools you would need to deprogramme FrankenFlash.

See Repairing Counterfeit Fake MP Players For MP Players.

Alert – neverchargerback44 – Ebay Fake Flash Seller

neverchargerback44 has been identified as an eBay seller of Counterfeit flash drives selling mainly to the UK and Europe. Currently under suspension by eBay this fake flash seller. Selling one drive model advertised as 16GB at ridiculously low prices of $2.00 to a high of $30.00, over 400+ fakes were unleashed between August 18th to September 28th 2008. If you bought this drive from neverchargerback44 you are at risk of data loss.

Hot – Polls on Fake Flash – You have a Voice

SOSFakeFlash introduces a number of polls readers can vote on! You now have a voice. Please see the category Polls – Fake Flash on the left Column Menu Bar. If you haven’t read the articles, please do before voting. If you already have, please go back to them and express yourself.

Alert – nrwdy1 – Ebay Fake Flash Seller – USA

nrwdy1 has been identified as an eBay seller of Counterfeit flash drives. Currently suspended from eBay this US based seller sold about 40+ 8GB Fake Flash drives. If you purchased the 8GB drive from this seller you are at risk of data loss. Are you curious to know who made the money on this fake flash selling?