Report A Fake 2008-2010 (April)
The Fake flash memory wars are raging. Especially on eBay!
Please report your fake flash memory seller to us – see below for the information we need. We do not have all sellers of counterfeit and false capacity usb flash drives, mpx players and memory cards on file. Your contribution helps everyone.
Addresses of sellers from your mailing envelopes are very helpful. It helps us to spot fraud rings operating on eBay. Use the search box and type in your sellers id, if there is an article make sure to leave a comment and also your progress in dealing with him.
As of June 2009, SOSFakeFlash announced a zero tolerance policy. One confirmation can lead to an alert against an eBay seller. We need to reduce the number of victims, too many being frauded. Regards, From the Fake Flash Angels at SOSFakeFlash
- It is important you test your item to find it’s true capacity. Read: H2testw 1.4 – Gold Standard In Detecting USB Counterfeit Drives
- Do not assume if you have made a paypal claim and it has been closed that you can not reopen it. Many victims have been forced to do this.
- Do not leave positive feedback in exhange for a refund. You only make the problem worse. It is probably why you bought from the seller in the first place! Read: eBay Victims do not leave positive Feedback or change FB to positive to get refunds! Any seller who tries to make you do this is in violation of eBay rules.
Any company who had been involved directly or indirectly with a transaction involving fake flash memory items is liable and responsible – if they chose not to respond to the situation or take the warnings issued by customers seriously. To ignore the issue is to condone it.
- Reminder eBay see: EBay Ordered to Pay $61 Million in Sale of Counterfeit Goods
- Reminder PayPal: Steele Settlement Website
If you have confirmed that you have a fake (purchased from eBay) and you wanted it entered into the database as evidence so we can post an alert or update counts against a seller we will need the following information from you:
- eBay item number
- eBay Seller id
- Your eBay Buyer id (d0n’t forget this please)
- Your output from H2testw 1.4
- eBay item description title
- Seller address complete if you have it (mailing envelopes, eBay, PayPal). Important to build profile and track multiple id’s
- Seller email address
- A short word of you experience and or thoughts if you like (optional)
Reminder, your eBay Buyer id is NOT published on the internet when you report in to us. eBay fake flash memory seller ids are published on the internet to warn other buyers.
If your seller used private auction listings to hide the listing, or a multiple item buy now listing please send a screen capture of the listing to help us cut down on the investigation time.
To capture your buy now listing is very important if the seller is not on file with us (eBay Fake Memory Seller Lists) , if the seller is suspended you will lose your evidence and so could we.
Send this information directly to sosfakeflashdrive@gmail.com
We will not enter information into the database from a public site without 1-4.
If you are reporting several sellers (it happens) please keep the 1-8 pattern. Easy to understand, the more you save us time the faster we can investigate and enter.
There is no time limit in reporting a seller, you can find a lot of information inside of your paypal account for proof. We have had cases as old as 18 months from purchase being reported. It is why recording in a database is so important.
SOSFakeFlash is very strict about collecting information, data that can be supported and has witnesses to the fake flash memory deed. The alerts and posts we publish – are based on evidence.
The data used used to build the list of fake flash memory sellers on eBay. It is also used to issue summary reports on the problem. Data from victims helped us to produce this report: Global Report – eBay Fake Memory 2008 – 2009 , a two year effort. If anyone wants to dispute with us, we can send them an angry mob of fake flash victims. So if you would like to have your item(s) recorded for the record please send us the information above to: sosfakeflashdrive@gmail.com
It is important to report even if the seller is already on the list or an alert is issued.
It increases the counts and evidence against the seller and for the degree of fraud on eBay too. . We publish the sellers and the current counts in our eBay fake flash sellers list. We also produce statistics and reports from the information you send.
In your feedback please put the calling card of “SOSFakeFlash” + “H2testw“. It helps people to find us and get help. It also unnerves fraudsters as it means their days are now numbered. If you left positive feedback, do a follow up to your original feedback – to let everyone know what you discovered. This makes a difference too. If you have a little time, contact at least 5 other buyers from your fake flash seller to warn them to test. It’s a chain reaction, it helps others, reduces victims and soon brings these fraudulent sellers to the attention of both PayPal and eBay.
SOSFakeFlash 
kittyfireflash said
Hi Pep,
This is same old, same old repeating story. On alerts you will find an email address. In the Paypal guide there are more addresses. Please use them. Depending on your location, please call paypal and get a human on the phone. You are dealing with email robots – we refer to those robots at SOSFakeFlash as having the intellegence of a peanut. You aren’t dealing with a person but an email responder.
Also it appears they want you to learn Chinese? I am not sure most eBay members are up to the challenge. The Chinese use ideogram’s not characters to make a word. If you were to attempt writing this addressing one slight slip of a line or stroke and you might write a very different word. You would also give the postal system a headache as well. Naturally it would delay the routing of your parcel.
Finally PayPal and eBay know very well it is against the laws in most countries to send or receive counterfeit and fake goods using the Postal System.
You drew a shot straw. You have two choices:
1) Climb into the boxing ring with PayPal, eBay and Fake Flash seller as many before you have
2) Let them keep your money.
It’s up to you. We do know that most people who fight get their money back. They do it more out of principal then for the money itself. The whole point of these stupid emails robots is to may you GO AWAY! so they can keep their ill gotten gains.
Research the paypal guide and stories, then hop into the boxing ring. We did. So can you.
BTW I hold the record forfull refunds (includes shipping and handling). I returned zero items. Not One.
I don’t intend to mention just how many items (I was guilty of a happy bidding frenzy in a very short period of time – it happens to eBay members..) I wanted to give them to people I knew who could not afford to buy them locally. Lucky I tested them first. Otherwise people would have lost data and I would not have been very popular where I live.
Like many who founded the project – I do not take NO! for an answer. Some of us come from a generation that fought to change the world – things people take for granted today….
You need to climb into the ring and say?
NO!
pep said
took the advice a phoned but all i got was an agent saying its not classed as a counterfiet/fake as it doensnt have a brand and that i MUST send it back to get a full refund and that its ok to send it back and not to worry about the postal laws about posting contefiets in th epostal syste, for the address Paypal say they will translate the address and get it emailed to me in the next few day.
am at wits end here all because of the scum that sell these things
Ray Adams said
Just received today.
Actually 2gb.
Contacted seller. Waiting for response.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180405815090&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
René said
Final update
============
Concerning:
zuzieq56
zuzieq@126.com
Jiangnan Road, No. 100 ZhongGuangDaSha, Room 1607
Guangzhou
Guangdong
510240
China
Never accept a no like i did, today recieved a COMPLETE refund from Paypal £85,50 GBP
Steven Cragg said
I recieved 5 4GB Fakes from onlinediscountshop2008. 2 wouldn’t detect and 3 results here:
One example: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400073997076
The media is likely to be defective.
1.9 GByte OK (3991552 sectors)
1.9 GByte DATA LOST (4163584 sectors)
Details:1.8 GByte overwritten (3903366 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
127.0 MByte corrupted (260218 sectors)
8 KByte aliased memory (16 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x0000000049d34000
Expected: 0x0000000049d34000
Found: 0x0000000049d32000
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 5.06 MByte/s
Reading speed: 13.0 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
The media is likely to be defective.
1.9 GByte OK (3991552 sectors)
1.9 GByte DATA LOST (4163584 sectors)
Details:1.8 GByte overwritten (3903362 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
127.0 MByte corrupted (260222 sectors)
15.5 KByte aliased memory (31 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x0000000000000000
Expected: 0x0000000000000000
Found: 0x8a4e3b0043425355
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 5.01 MByte/s
Reading speed: 12.8 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
The media is likely to be defective.
1.9 GByte OK (3991552 sectors)
1.9 GByte DATA LOST (4163584 sectors)
Details:1.8 GByte overwritten (3903364 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
127.0 MByte corrupted (260220 sectors)
8 KByte aliased memory (16 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x00000000796e8000
Expected: 0x00000000796e8000
Found: 0x00000000796e6000
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 4.84 MByte/s
Reading speed: 12.4 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
Ezequiel said
Hi,
I did a purchase of 100 16GB Kingston Data Traveler from a chinese vendor a couple of months ago. All these Flash drives are fake and my intention was to resell these parts, but in this condition I prefer to do some fire for the winter with them. The seller is in http://www.alibaba.com their company is http://www.abausbflashdrive.com/pages_id_21.html
The “lady” that was all the time doing business with me is Julia (szabausbflashdrive@hotmail.com).
It was a really scam. I lost my money and there is no way to get back my money or some restriction to these bastards to sell items on Internet.
RockDoctor said
You did a deal worth probably several hundreds of pounds (sterling) with someone through a HOTMAIL account ? ?
Didn’t that suggest that there was something just ever so slightly suspicious about this? Like, weren’t there loud klaxons sounding, and flashing lights! Didn’t the police come hammering through your door to drag your finger off the “send” button ?
How many of the test sample were good, how many were bad ?
How many previous satisfied customers did you contact, verify their details, and what did they say about the goods that they’d received ?
The Americans have a special legal term in English – “due diligence” – which means what most of the rest of the world knows as “caveat emptor”, from the Latin meaning “[let the] buyer beware”. With the emphasis on the “beware”. If the seller were honest, they’d not have any worry about using a traceable email address ; they’d not have any concerns about you contacting previous customers ; they’d not make it difficult to find out who they actually are. If they object to any of the above, then they’re probably either deliberately fraudulent or (at best) dangerously incompetent.
OK, I deliberately indulge in trade with such entities, using small change, with the specific aim of blackening their reputations on eBay/ PayPal. I do it with a small amount of money that I could just as well put into getting me and my mate boozed up for the night, or taking the wife (but not wife + daughter) to a restaurant for the evening. It’s a perverse form of entertainment for me. If I were doing it for business, with the intention of making profit, I’d show a lot more caution than you have.
By the way, could you loan me a few hundred pounds? I promise I’ll give it back to you, pretty please with sugar on top.
For your information, the site you mention is registered at
Alibaba.com Corporation
Room 2403-05 Jubilee Centre
Wanchai
Hong Kong
HK
Domain Name: ALIBABA.COM
Their Administrative Contact is :
Tsai tim.steinert@alibaba-inc.com
Alibaba Group Holding Limited
Room 2403-05 Jubilee Centre
18 Fenwick Street Wanchai
Hong Kong
HK
852-2215-5100 fax: 852-2215-5200
Their internet domain registration is provided by
Registrant Name: Ray King
Registrant Organization: AboutUs Inc.
Registrant Street1: 12806 SE 22nd PL
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City: Bellevue
Registrant State/Province: WA
Registrant Postal Code: 98005
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: 1.2068389035
Who are re-selling service from “Sponsoring Registrar: eNom Inc. (R39-LROR)”
Mr King is probably not going to want to be associated with thieves – his registration is paid up until 09-May-2017 17: 31: 43 UTC . So you might be able to hurt AliBaba (and the rest of the 40 thieves) by informing Mr King of the problem. After all, if AliBaba are willing to steal from you, then they may be lax about paying their hosting fees.
I obtained the above information in a lot less time than it took to type my comments (and I’m a reasonably fast typist) by doing a “whois” search for the alibaba.com domain. The information may or may not be correct, but if it is incorrect, then it’s a racing certainty that the seller is engaged in some sort of illegal activity. You have two phone numbers there – how much does two (international rate) phone calls cost? “Hi there, can I speak to Tim? … Tim Steinert …” and then start the old “social engineering” to examine the company.
Ah, we have a name … and Google is good at names. Well, I’m sure you can do that too.
It’s easy to verify the bona fides of a company ; if it’s not easy, then they probably are not bona fide.
This may be a site for people who’ve been ripped off, but that doesn’t excuse someone involved in a significant size of business from not doing his own homework.
The_Flash said
Hey RockDoctor,
I hope you don’t think that I’m being nitpicky or something like that, but I feel that something needs pointing out about Alibaba. 😉 Specifically, it relates to this: “After all, if AliBaba are willing to steal from you, then they may be lax about paying their hosting fees.”
My understanding is that Alibaba is a site that provides leads to wholesalers of goods – it doesn’t actually sell any goods itself. They are, I gather, quite well-known, and even started advertising on British television recently.
From what I can see, the problem here appears to lie with someone coming forward with leads to wholesale goods via the site, as opposed to the site itself. (I have heard of such things happening with similar sites as well, unfortunately.)
I’m not disputing your post at all, of course – I just felt that it needed mentioning. 🙂
RockDoctor said
Ah, I see, that explains why I could find photos of the previously named lawyer, etc, etc. They’re in a perfectly legitimate business, but they have illegal fraudulent traders using their site/ services. Just like eBay/ PayPal, and the proverbial “car boot sale”.
In that case, a strongly-worded complaint to AliBaba may at least result in hurt (perfectly legal) for the offending seller.
It’d be interesting to hear what AliBaba’s response would be. Personally, I looked at the name, thought “and the Forty Thieves”, then thought “I wouldn’t touch them with a 10ft bargepole belonging to someone else, after stirring the cess pit with the bargepole”, then thought “bloody weird psychology to try to get customers by pretending to be thieves”. The idea of them being an even slightly legitimate site never crossed my mind once.
They advertise on UK telly, do they? Can’t say that I’ve seen them, but if I do see the advert, you (and their PR people) can take a good guess which “customer satisfaction report” I’ll be relating to the audience.
Just to clarify something I said earlier :
RockDoctor said
Bugger, forgot to close the blockquote.
Matti Juvonen said
Hello!
I have purchased the product.http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280395780828&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
The product was a fake.
Could not do the test.
Could not initialize.
Does not respond to e-mail.
My ip in Ebay is “matjuvo”
Traveler said
Hello Matti,
I see this is one of the fake capacity 64gb leather clad drives from ebay seller jew-fantasy.
There is an article on this seller at fighting flash fraud pages raised on 2nd of September. Feel free to post a comment there on this seller. Your input is valued and welcome.
If the seller is not responding to your e-mails, contact them through ebay Safety Centre (top right of main ebay page. At least that way the seller has no real alternative but to answer you unless they want you to escalate your claim. This quite often prompts reluctant sellers to take action.
See how you get on with that.
Richard Craik said
Received a 32Gb SDHC on 15 Oct 2009 from evil1314520- card fails h2testw and is low capacity SD card hacked to show as 32 Gb but corrupts/overwrites data- card is branded ‘Elite Pro’ and bears a Kingston part no.
Reported to E-bay and Paypal.
Menno van Ginkel said
I bought a 32GB usb-stick from alice_daphne_a_123, which had gotten a CERTIFIED SELLER status by eBay.
I have already send her an email stating that if she does not refund me, I will contact the Chinese Authorities. Furthermore, I reported the item in eBay, and send PayPal an email.
here is the H2Test report:
Error reading file ‘M:\30.h2w’, offset 0x3b300000.
(The semaphore timeout period has expired. Code 121)
Warning: Only 31987 of 31988 MByte tested.
The media is likely to be defective.
3.8 GByte OK (8172416 sectors)
26.0 GByte DATA LOST (54584448 sectors)
Details:4.8 GByte overwritten (10169615 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
21.1 GByte corrupted (44414833 sectors)
28.5 KByte aliased memory (57 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x00000000f9670000
Expected: 0x00000000f9670000
Found: 0x00000007cf270000
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 2.42 MByte/s
Reading speed: 4.60 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
hopefully i will get my money back.
Cheers
menno
Guillermo Diaz said
I fell for the the fake memory card scam from SAFE2STAR. I purchased a 16GB SDHC memory card and when I tried it in my cam corder it wouldn’t read read it. After a few google searches I saw that I got scammed.
eBay Item(s):
#290353500861
paypal Transaction ID #7NX85290MH9497926
my ebay id is guillo72
sellers id is SAFE2STAR
The media is likely to be defective.
1.9 GByte OK (4133616 sectors)
13.6 GByte DATA LOST (28599568 sectors)
Details:0 KByte overwritten (0 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
13.6 GByte corrupted (28599568 sectors)
0 KByte aliased memory (0 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x000000007e25e000
Expected: 0x000000007e25e000
Found: 0xffffffffffffffff
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 1.63 MByte/s
Reading speed: 3.38 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
I filed a paypal complaint and the seller responded telling me that if I change my negative feed back to positeve he will refund me my money and I could keep the card. Here is a copy of the response I got
From Buyer – guillermo diaz
10/19/2009 12:40 PDT
I bought a 16GB SDHC memory card from the seller through ebay. I recieved the card on 10-16-2009 and when I put it in my video camera it doesn't recognize it. I am sure it is the right one for my camera becuase I have another one that works.
I did some research on the ebay seller and it seems like they are known to sell fake memory cards. Here is a site that talks about the ebay seller safe2star as selling fake memory cards. http://mympx.org/forum/bad-sellers-blacklist/36003-146-ebay-traders-reported-selling-hacked-players-11.html
I also found a program online to verify if a memory card is genuine or not. The name of the program is called H2testw. The 16GB SDHC memory card I recieved is actually a 2GB made to look like a 16GB.
So I purchased a 16GB card and I was sent a fake 2GB card. I just want my money back beacuse I didn't get what I was promised. I guess I should have done my research before I purchased it.
From Seller – SZETO CHAK PUN
10/19/2009 19:22 PDT
Sorry it still can not work well.
Could you kind send it back for a replacement or refund?
If you can leave me a positive feedback first,i will send a new card or refund you without the item sending back,ok?
Please kind udnerstand that we can not get moeny back form the supplier without the item as proof.
So we only hope can get a positive feedback to reduce our lose.
Hope you kind understand.
Wait for your idea
From Buyer – guillermo diaz
10/19/2009 22:11 PDT
I found a very interesting site https://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/report-a-fake/. I am also going to report you to ebay, paypal, my local police and Hong Kong Police. I will do this if I don't have a refund for the full amount by tomorrow morning.
From Seller – SZETO CHAK PUN
10/19/2009 23:35 PDT
Friend,If you can change the bad feedback for me,i will full refund you within the item sending back,ok?
Please kind understand my poo rsituation as well.
Guillermo Diaz said
I got another meesage from SAFE2STAR. If I change my negative feed back to positive, I not only get to keep the fake card but they will give me $5 extra….LMAO
Dear friend,
Sorry for the trouble.
Have you receive my emails?
For i am not get response from you.
Could you kind follow-up the feedback for me?
Once you follow it up,i will make full refund to you and refund 5USD more.
Hope you kind understand my situation.
Thanks for your help.
Please kind do this for me.
Please enter your ebay,find the “Site Map” –>”Follow Up to Feedback Left”
Then find the feedback you against us,choose the “Follow up”
Then please attach the following words:
“I`m willing to remove the negative feedback for seller”
Wait for your help and reply.
Once these words shows on the feedbacks,please notice me.Then i will make the refund .
Wait for your reply.
Good day!
safe2star
Guillermo said
I just got a response from ebay regarding the claim I filed. They say that SAFE2STAR is no longer a registered seller. I guess our work has payed off.
“Dear Guillermo,
Thank you for writing eBay in regard to item 290353500861 (New 16GB GB
SD SDHC Memory Card Secure Digital Class 6) that you purchased from
seller . My name is Mylen and I appreciate the chance to assist you with
your concern.
Guillermo, thank you for bringing this issue to us. Rest assured that we
will take actions regarding this matter. As of this time what I want you
to do is to continue with your case and please don’t forget to escalate
your case into a claim for you to get your money back.
— Continue with your PayPal case
Since the seller appears to be no longer a registered user, I recommend
you continue your case in the PayPal Resolution Center. This can help
you resolve the problem with the seller or help you get a refund (from
PayPal). PayPal’s Buyer Protection covers up to the full purchase price
and original shipping charges on eligible purchases. You need to open a
case in the PayPal Resolution Center within 45 days after the listing
ends.”
Randy said
Interesting. Just checked and SAFE2STAR is still a registered seller and has 579 items for sale (mostly mp3 players). I noticed that this seller has very low selling prices with high shipping costs == $30+ this could be considered as contrary to EBay policy – using high shipping costs to avoid ebay fees.
KittyFireFlash said
Hi Guillermo,
safe2star is not yet suspended see:
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=safe2star&Dirn=Received+by
he is very busy still selling fakes. Please advise eBay to kindly look at their site and they will see the listings very active. safe2star thinks he is a big shot and that his accumulated FB will protect him.
To Everyone
Shoulders to the wheel! Roast and Toast – warn buyers for the seller to test!
Get people who find out they bought a fake to do follow up feedback on their positive stating the truth.
What we do not want to see is:
Lately to get money back, eBay sellers are demanding that people put in this statement as a follow up: I`m willing to remove the negative feedback for seller
and people wonder why there is a problem on ebay…..
Is a miserable $20.50 AU worth placing other eBay members at risk?
Let’s work on safe2star being suspended on eBay! upcomingtrend was suspended, now it is safe2star’s turn. If you don’t like fraud on eBay or are a victim, lend a hand.
Please read:
Javier said
New 32GB SD SDHC Memory Card Secure Digital 32Go 32GB/H
1. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230386583029&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
2. goodgoods2009
3. jvalerc
4.
The media is likely to be defective.
3.9 GByte OK (8297021 sectors)
27.2 GByte DATA LOST (57204163 sectors)
Details:0 KByte overwritten (0 sectors)
22 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 44 sectors)
27.2 GByte corrupted (57204119 sectors)
0 KByte aliased memory (0 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x00000000000010a8
Expected: 0x452d3f6ab8bb1971
Found: 0x45ba3f6ab8bb1971
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 1.57 MByte/s
Reading speed: 3.34 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
6.
15 id 230386583029
From: duanencheng
FLAT 25-26,2/F
BLOCK B,FOCAL IND CTR,
21 MAN LOK ST, HUNG HOM
Hongkong
I file a dispute on paypal, flag the item on ebay, and notify the last 5 buyers of the same item (2 of them reply fake too!). The guy refund me the money and ask me to ship the item back to this address:
Duan encheng
Building 75-504
Yitian Village, Futian District
ShenZhen,
china
Then paypal closed the case but he still continues with the scam.
http://shop.ebay.com/goodgoods2009/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686
Javier said
This is what I’m doing with this guy, I’m writing to the last 5 buyers of the same item (you can find them on the feedback profile) and send them an alert (ebay only allows 5 messages in a 24hour period) then hopefully they are going to test the item and initiate a dispute, if every victim does the same, we can get rid of this plague with less casualties.
KittyFireFlash said
To Javier
Please do contact the buyers who bought the same memory card as you. But do not stop at 5. Make a note of where you started from, go backward then forward again.
Your information on seller goodgoods2009 was very useful. Do you know why? With the addressing information you provided Javier, you have linked another ebay id – worldseller0988. worldseller0988 is currently under eBay suspension.
Also based the addressing information I asked for a deep search to be carried out. It appears that:
21 MAN LOK ST, HUNG HOM
is home to a number of fake flash memory selling nests. To find them, we need people to send in the addresses for fake flash sellers. There are two crime rings operating there. We’ve given them simple code names of:
21 MAN LOK CRing001
21 MAN LOK CRing002
goodgoods2009 is scheduled for more detailed investigation. Make sure Javier, that if buyers confirm that they received a fake like you did from the seller that they report in to us with the details using the report a fake tab.
Mario said
i bought 10 16GB sd cards, never received it… ebay user: should19160 and brighting688
absolutely no communication!!!
Mario said
i bought 10/24/09 and payed same day. still nothing. now i’m reading feedback s and there are text about fake cards arrived to other users. this is definitely fake seller.
i made a claim to paypal, i dont know will this help. should19160 provided some tracking information, witch i think its bogus, because its all the same for my 10 psc items, but it never arrived, even tracking no says it arrived.
zx9r_mario said
Fake 16GB SHDC card:
Only the first 3,9GB are good (tested with h2testw 1.4), write speed in only 1.5MB/sec (should be class 6)
Ebay reseller: cypress_network
http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=390097090978
Elvis said
is this 32gig kingston sdhc card fake? please let me know asap i got it today and can still contact ebay.
The media is likely to be defective.
1.9 GByte OK (4080503 sectors)
29.0 GByte DATA LOST (60933257 sectors)
Details:29.0 GByte overwritten (60933257 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
0 KByte corrupted (0 sectors)
2 MByte aliased memory (4096 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x0000000000000000
Expected: 0x0000000000000000
Found: 0x00000007bff6c000
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 2.82 MByte/s
Reading speed: 6.50 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
The_Flash said
Elvis, those results suggest that the card is indeed fake. It appears that it’s actually a 2GB card.
Elvis said
k i got my money efunded and apperently he did not know about this, he has had his ebay account since 2007 so it being a scamming account would not be right right? i will wait and see if he still posts his sd cards online and if so i will report him…
jim portis said
I bought a fake flash drive from bestelecusa on Ebay my user name is rod222
James Greenidge said
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290372833662&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_903wt_683
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eBay Seller: nakpak ( 24785)
Contact seller
Paid on Nov-22-09 via PayPal
NEW Sandisk Mini SD Memory Card 1GB & SD Card Adapter
290372833662
I have contacted SanDisk who have determined that the malfunctioning product is counterfeit. I will e-mail you full transcript with SanDisk or view it on SSOSFakeFlash. Since you’ve a honorable rating on eBay, I’m prone to give you and your company the benefit of doubt that you were unwary of your pirate vendor. For more info on sting merchants see https://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/report-a-fake/ . So I’ll withhold contacting eBay Resolutions until you effect full reimbursement or exchange for genuine article.
cc: SOSFakeFlash https://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/report-a-fake/
James Greenidge
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Dear James,
Thanks for contacting SanDisk Chat Support. It is our goal to make sure you have all the resources you need to get the most from your product.
Please refer to your My SanDisk at http://kb.sandisk.com anytime to see all of your incident history and product registration information. You can log in using your email address as your login and the password that you created.
Ross G.
SanDisk Technical Support
Chat Transcript 11/24/2009 04:50 PM
Hello, thank you for contacting SanDisk. My name is Ross G.. How may I assist you today?
James Greenidge: Evening. How can tell whether my new SD card is authentic?
James Greenidge: From eBay seller. Your rival does it via serial numbers.
Ross G.: Please provide me the alphanumeric code which is at the back of the card.
James Greenidge: Please hold. Thanks…
Ross G.: Sure, I am waiting.
James Greenidge: Hold…hard to see…
James Greenidge: 8806301CTE I believe…
Ross G.: Can you please read out what is written on the face of the card?
James Greenidge: hold..
James Greenidge: 1.0gb Mini SD SanDisk..
James Greenidge: not sure if 88 in number’s really 99
Ross G.: Please allow me a minute James.
Ross G.: James, you have to send us the pictures of the card. We will review the pictures and then only will be able to tell you whether the card is genuine or not.
James Greenidge: will take 10 min. can I get back to you or wait?
Ross G.: You will receive a follows up email from us and then you can send us the pictures as attachments along with the reply to the email.
James Greenidge: Very good. Would you like the eBay merchant info?
Ross G.: No, we do not require that. Please send us the pictures only.
James Greenidge: Okay. Immediately. Thanks.
Ross G.: Is there anything else I may assist you with, James?
James Greenidge: If you snag a flash pirate you’ve done more than enough! Thanks!
Ross G.: We’ll send you the incident number, that you can use to reference this chat, and the chat transcript in an follow-up email. Thank you.
Ross G.: Thank you for contacting SanDisk, and you have a great day, James.
James Greenidge: Good Night!
‘James Greenidge’ disconnected (‘Concluded by End-user’).
Question Reference #091124-003094
Product Level 1: Memory Card
Product Level 2: miniSD
Product Level 3: Legacy
Product Level 4: Standard
Product Level 5: 1GB
Date Created: 11/24/2009 04:50 PM
Last Updated: 11/24/2009 04:50 PM
James Greenidge said
FOLLOW UP:
Notice that it’s not even being contested…
> Message from eBay Member Regarding Item #290372833662 11:50 P.M. EST,
> Dear jimwg,
> I do apologize for the defective/counterfeit
> product. I purchase my items from my supplier and
> I guess some bad ones got in. Would you like a
> refund or a replacement? Thank you,
> – nakpak
I would prefer to keep doing business with your company if you
can replace it with a genuine SanDisk product. As a eBay vendor
you already know eBay rules demand I hold on to the fake (for
unknown reasons) until I’m recompensed and I mail it back to
you. I’d accept full reimbursement, but I’d much rather have the
genuine SanDisk SD card and your future business so I can take
down the vendor alert at SOSFakeFlash.
James Greenidge
TechChips said
Hi James,
If a seller is reported with evidence, there is no such thing as removing an alert. In the history of the FrankenFlash Project, not one alert or post has ever been removed. It stays and becomes a permanent record to document the issue.
There is only one way a fake flash seller could ever hope for redemption. To submit proof that every single buyer has been refunded in full – including the shipping and handling. Should a seller be able to do this, and eBay confirms that the seller did refund every single buyer, a new article would be issued to confirm the seller “made good”.
SOSFakeFlash does not exist as a weapon to force fake flash memory sellers to return money to buyers. Extortion by public exposure is not the purpose of this site.
The mission statement of SOSFakeFlash reads:
We mean it. Our reputation and our integrity is very important to us. Each day our reputation grows. It is a lot of work and effort, it requires a very costly sacrifice of our free time – we are unpaid volenteers and have absoultely nothing to gain financially. Most of us, have already recieved our refunds, since we would not let the matter go.
eBay and PayPal for the arena on eBay have begun to take our reports and articles seriously, so much so that eBay is suspending bad sellers more quickly.
SOSFakeFlash is not a site to blackmail eBay sellers, no matter how just it might be. It is to report the facts, to alert consumers to the truth.
Everyone needs to watch out for the I have a bad supplier, this is a typical tactic employed by fake flash memory sellers.
It is possible for an eBay seller to be a victim, in fact it is one of the earliest articles published at this site:
eBay Sellers Can Be Victims – How Does This Happen?
A seller who is a victim, must refund every single buyer and submit proof. We will then be happy to write a new article, with the seller’s help to demonstrate the sellers integrity – and reference the old alerts and or articles.
There are plenty of sellers who threatened us. Interestingly, they were all suspended by eBay and quickly. It speaks for itself.
You may find this reply a little harsh, James. If so, you need to understand we operate in the interest of ALL VICTIMS of a fake flash memory seller, and not just one victim. Everyone matters, everyone counts.
SOSFakeFlash is not a pawn in a dispute with a fake flash memory seller. We exist to help everyone to deal with the horrible problems than reprogamming flash memory to lie about real capacity brings to buyers.
On a positive note, more victims are receiving refunds from PayPal and eBay is starting to take us very seriously. It will only continue as long as buyers fight back. Fake flash memory sellers on eBay need to understand, this is not a game – it is a war. We intent to see that they are removed from eBay. Despite all the grief and eBay as yet not being willing to change the rules for listing flash memory technology we actually love ebay (this might be hard for some readers to believe). We want the old eBay back! An eBay we can have confidence in.
If eBay continues to resist, eventually they will be in court and it is possible that an issue like this could destroy it. It would be very sad.
Readers, if you make comments or submit evidence, it is permenant. We will not remove or erase the truth because you have remorse. Chose your words with care. This is a nasty issue. The public must be warned.
marinarossi13 said
I saw you speak very badly of safe2star.
Yesterday I received the product ordered.
Perfect and as described.
I must thank safe2star very much for the kindness has shown me and for the seriousness.
On the ebay was written: “not sent to Italy” but at the time of the auction in Italy Ebay was written: Italy Free shipping.
He pointed me that on description was not sent in Italy.
I still invited to send at my risk (he could tell me that he had done)no other costs and the package arrived perfect.
My babe (9y) is very happy.
Stlouie said
I got burned by menglong69@gmail.com. I thought I was getting (2) 64GB Kinston DataTraveler 200 thumbdrives.. I’ve submitted my complaint to paypal, and I’ve noticed that they are no longer posting on ebay.
The media is likely to be defective.
1.9 GByte OK (4130293 sectors)
62.0 GByte DATA LOST (130077195 sectors)
Details:4.1 GByte overwritten (8621772 sectors)
54.5 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 109 sectors)
57.9 GByte corrupted (121455314 sectors)
57 KByte aliased memory (114 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x000000007e090000
Expected: 0x000000007e090000
Found: 0x0000000fffa00000
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 2.46 MByte/s
Reading speed: 3.73 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
Laurens said
Marinarossi13 I very much doubt it is actually the right size as listed on Ebay, did you even test it?
I received a 16gb sd card and a 16gb mp3 player from safe2star and both were only 2gb real size.
Art Heimsoth said
Listing #: 230400906930
Seller ID: clicktoblue
My Ebay: heim3048
h2testw output:
The media is likely to be defective.
1.8 GByte OK (3943648 sectors)
29.7 GByte DATA LOST (62370592 sectors)
Details:26.6 GByte overwritten (55814583 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
3.1 GByte corrupted (6556009 sectors)
1001.5 KByte aliased memory (2003 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x000000007859c000
Expected: 0x000000007859c000
Found: 0x00000007e7b90000
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 2.66 MByte/s
Reading speed: 4.15 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
ebay listing: 32gb flash drive 32 gb g b 32g usb 2.0 memory stick M#2
Purchased 2 of them, both tested the same.
Attempting to get purchase refunded – no response yet.
Valet said
Purchased my MicroSD 16 GB from Seller info
gggworldwide
Item number: 110463141523
FAKE FAKE NOT 16GB ONLY 1.8GB
The media is likely to be defective.
1.8 GByte OK (3977232 sectors)
14.0 GByte DATA LOST (29507568 sectors)
Details:14.0 GByte overwritten (29507568 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
0 KByte corrupted (0 sectors)
1 KByte aliased memory (2 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x0000000079602000
Expected: 0x0000000079602000
Found: 0x0000000079601c00
H2testw version 1.3
Reading speed: 12.7 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
diagon-elly said
eBay
32GB USB 2.0 Drive Flash Memory Pen Stick Thumb 32G S32
Seller: mygodyeah
from Hongkong
eBay Number:180419137501
3.8 GB instead of 32 GB tested with H2testw.exe
Case is open in eBay. Seller apologized to me in many emails but keeps selling them like hell, every day. He wanted me to ship it back and offered to pay for my expenses as well. I also put a printout of the protocol I got from H2testw.exe.
I shipped item back with confirmation number. It has been delivered on December 2nd at 5.22 pm but seller still claims he hasn’t gotten it yet. He tries to play for time because the 60 days for me to leave a feeddback would have been over soon. But I did it anyway. I have also opened a dispute with PayPal and gave them all the facts. Time will tell. After communicating with the seller through resolution center at ebay – I stopped that now and now it is in eBays hand. I will not respond anymore because he repeats all the time: “Once we recieve the item we’ll refund you.”
Yeah right!
here is address of seller “mygodyeah”
Peng Cheng Hui (MY)
32 B, XiaoFeng Building, YouYi Road, Luohu District, Shenzhen
518002 Guangdong Province, China
Jayne said
Ebay
32GB USB 2.0 Flash Memory Drive
Seller : mustgone
From Hong Kong
Ebay Number : 170407127780
I first have to say 2 things, the Free Shipping is cool and The drive its self is of a remarkably high standard. Hell Its better made than some of the good Drives I have….Anyhoo I digress…
Warning: Only 31983 of 31984 MByte tested.
The media is likely to be defective.
1.9 GByte OK (4065248 sectors)
29.2 GByte DATA LOST (61435936 sectors)
Details:29.2 GByte overwritten (61435936 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
0 KByte corrupted (0 sectors)
1 MByte aliased memory (2048 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x000000007c0fc000
Expected: 0x000000007c0fc000
Found: 0x00000007cee30000
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 2.28 MByte/s
Reading speed: 13.3 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
I currently have Ebay and PayPal on the case and will let you know waht the outcome is
FREEUSB said
I have purchased 3 “16GB” drives from 3 different sellers on Ebay, first 2 I received were only good for 2GB, I havent received the 3rd yet, however I filed a claim on all 3 and was refunded in full for all 3 within 24 hours of filing the claim. All 3 sellers told me they were sorry and I didn’t have to return them. So now I bid, I pay, I wait 10 days, I file a claim with paypal, I get my money back, and I recieve a good 2GB USB Flash drive, that doesn’t cost me a penny. 🙂
KittyFireFlash said
To FREEUSB
You are classified as a fake flash commando. Everyone must act according to their conscience.
You did not get a “free usb” flash drive though. Consider the time you spend, multiple it by the hourly wage you earn. The time to “repair” – restore the fake to it’s true capacity means that you did not get anything Free. You earned it with the time you invested.
SOSFakeFlash does not dictate how a person should fight. Frankly many of us envy you. For your courage and for your approach, unfortunately we can’t do what you do – we must follow the rules.
According to InspectorTech,FlashChips and IT Guy, a usb flash drive that has been digitally altered can never be fully trusted. There are only so many read write cycles a flash memory chip can have. Many fakes have a small area of a flash chip that has been repeatedly overwritten, this reduces the life span of the chip. It is called wear leveling. If the fake is detected early it is less of a problem. Also the flash memory chips used for storage are of poor quality, grade C or D according to FlashChipTutor.
There is nothing wrong with repairing a fake flash memory item so long as you retest with H2testw and make sure that you have a back up copy of the files you transfer to the repaired item.
To all readers, the fight against fake memory items is dirty. It is a war. The objective is to stop the practice of reporgramming flash memory chips. People lose not only money but their files.
This is not a level playing field. To assume so is naive. FREEUSB has chosen his/her path to deal with the issue. You must decide for yourselves how you wish to contribute and the actions you will take.
I repeat….FREEUSB did not get anything “free” he/she earned it, the hard way.
Many people keep asking… Why does eBay not do anything? The problem is that eBay needs the money from the fees. They earn a great deal of revenue from fake flash sellers. They know the problem exists. It is now 7 years old. Readers ask why ebay does not insert a warning in listings to test with H2testw.
Simple. They do not dare! About 95% of all memory cards, mp3 mp4 players and memory cards sold on eBay are false capacity. If they inserted a warning to test.. no one would buy and 95% of listings would be unsold!
Do the math! eBay will never stop fake flash memory sellers. Only you can shut these sellers down. If you are a victim of this fraud, do something positive, fight back. If you prefer not to, then send the seller the balance of your bank account as a “Thank You” as you have enjoyed your experience of being a victim of fake flash memory.
FREEUSB said
Fake or not, I would never trust any flash drive with important information. I use these drives to download 2 DVDrips on to for my daughters to watch on there nvidia media players. They work fine because I am only loading between 1400mb & 1600mb.
There is no way to stop these sellers, they sell for a couple weeks or so, then stop and start selling under a different username. Search Ebay, type—> 16gb usb drive,
over 1200 right now, and you can bet ALL the unbranded ones are FAKE. I have received the flip style with the keychain, Fake, I received the metal with leather trim and flap, FAKE, I am still waiting on the beveled ends type, but the seller already refunded my money quickly, so I bet it must be FAKE. When I buy and file a claim with Paypal, it is documented, so maybe someday if anyone decides to go after these fake sellers, there will be alot of information on paypal, proving their guilt.
Please don’t make me out to be a crook, I have purchased many drives on ebay, and all, except these unbranded 16gb, have been at least 90% of the listed capacity. If I ever receive 1 of these 16gb drives with even 50% capacity, I would not ask for a refund, 8gb capacity is worth $10.-$15., but not 2gb.
Darron R. Birgenheier said
Chalk me up as yet another hapless victim! My USB flash drive was supposed to be 32GB.
eBay item number: 320454719111
eBay Seller id: garysin2008
Your eBay Buyer id: darronb
eBay item description if the listing has been removed: http://birgenheier.com/fake/
Seller address (complete) if you have it:
Name: ChiLaw Sin
Address: default
Telephone: 69410030
Output from H2testw 1.4:
Error reading file ‘G:\22.h2w’, offset 0x8100000.
(The semaphore timeout period has expired. Code 121)
The media is likely to be defective.
3.9 GByte OK (8243840 sectors)
17.1 GByte DATA LOST (36060544 sectors)
Details:15.8 GByte overwritten (33313583 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed ( Hi friend,
> Item has been shipped after your payment.tracking code was RB088070349HK
> Usually it takes 17-20 working days for the delivery, pls kindly pay more
> patience, when you get it, pls kindly let me know, any question, feel free
> to contact me. Due to the Xmas Day, it
> may delay somedays at post office, hope you can kindly understand.
> Any thought, feel free to contact me.
> Regards.
Zak said
I got a fake USB stick!
1. eBay item number: #320453468237
2. eBay Seller id: pppppnnnnn
3. Your eBay Buyer id: zculic1
4. Your output from H2testw 1.4: ERROR
5. eBay item description if the listing has been removed: 64GB 64 GB Kingston USB Flash Pen Drive Memory Stick
6. Seller address (complete) if you have it. Important to build profile and track multiple id’s: Payment sent to jiang.xiaoping@live.cn, xiaoping jiang; I also contacted: songrenlei, songrenlei@live.cn who sent me e-mail with the Tracking Number on the Hongkong post site: RA858247129HK. I sent e-mail to both but no reply.
7. A short word of you experience and or thoughts if you like (optional):
I lost some data and after that I had problems with formating. Then I discovered it is not Kingston and it is not 64GB – it is only 4 GB USB generic flash drive.
I tried with h2testw_1.4, but it showed ERROR!
Then I tried with ChipGenius.exe and I got the following:
Device Name: +[G:]+USB Mass Storage Device(Generic Flash Disk 2.0 USB Device), PnP Device ID: VID = 5136 PID = 4678, Serial Number: 5&&10B8D0AB&&0&&2, Revision: 2.40, Device Type: Standard USB device – USB2.0 High-Speed, Chip Vendor: micov, Chip Part-Number: MW6208, Product Vendor: (N/A), Product Model: (N/A), Tools on Web: http://bbs.mydigit.cn/read.php?tid=113588.
With Ameco_MW8209_6208E_1.1.1.5_20091015 I enabled my USB flash drive with 8% of loss and I got 3.64 GB.
Steve said
Yet another counterfeit Seller
eBay item description – 32GB USB 2.0 Flash Memory Drive 32G Pen Thumb Stick g
32GB USB Pen Drive (Silver) other Markings – QCA 32GB
output from H2testw 1.4
The media is likely to be defective.
1.9 GByte OK (4063872 sectors)
29.2 GByte DATA LOST (61439360 sectors)
Details:29.2 GByte overwritten (61439360 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
0 KByte corrupted (0 sectors)
1 MByte aliased memory (2048 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x000000007c050000
Expected: 0x000000007c050000
Found: 0x00000007cef50000
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 3.50 MByte/s
Reading speed: 10.2 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
Seller contact details – amust2009, amust09@gmail.com Hong Kong
The 32gb Card was not fit for purpose, as it did not hold or copy data consistently, The test performed found only limited amount of good quality media to retain information, less then 1.9gb
It is suspected the product had been digitally altered from 2GB to 32GB a function unsupported by the card and therefore a counterfeit.
For a picture see typical listing #EBAY 180450886548
soylentg said
Hello and thank you for your wonderfull site as it seems to be the only source to support us customers that were cheated on ebay/paypal.I was cheated some days ago by a seller named
xprodeal.
I bought 2 items:A 32 Gb USB flash drive that was actually a hacked 2 GB and one 16 GB mcro sd card that was actually a hacked 1 GB.I noticed that something was fishy immediatelly.The write times were extremelly slow and data were just getting corrupted/couldnt read them.Through the comments on ebay i found out about h2testw.exe witch confirmed my suspicions.I opened a dispute on paypal and the seller responded at once telling me its a seldom event…. and that he could replace/refund items as long as i send them back to him.I refused to send back counterfeit items as its illegal in my country so i just opened a claim and left negative feedback on ebay.But that didnt help.
I now got a demand from paypal that i must to return items registered with a tracking number(that costs more than i have paid for them) back so i can be eligible to a refund.I am not planning to do that in any circumstance,i dont care about the money its a matter of principal.I am also quite certain he will resell them to other unware victims if i do that.I am very fustrated cause i thought when buying on ebay using paypal was safe and it wouldnt be any problems.Why ebay/paypal lets criminals(i dont know what other expression to use) to operate freely after they get so many complaints?If the specific seller had been banned after he had cheated the first 2-3 persons this would have never happen to me and many others innocent victims.
Ebay seems to me as a criminal organisation that they ignore everything as long as it harms their profit.Why the specific seller continues to operate after so many complaints?Why they let his counterfeit items on their site?
After i have finished with all my transactions i am going to close my acount both on paypal and ebay.I know thay wont miss me but i wont miss them either.I have posted the above text on the ebay.uk new users forums too.
Well you can add 2 more cases on his name xprodeal.
Here some info about the transactions/items
1. eBay item number 180442712914
2. eBay Seller id xprodeal
3. Your eBay Buyer id soylentg
4. Your output from H2testw 1.4
The media is likely to be defective.
987.4 MByte OK (2022240 sectors)
14.8 GByte DATA LOST (31114400 sectors)
Details:14.8 GByte overwritten (31114400 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
0 KByte corrupted (0 sectors)
16 MByte aliased memory (32768 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x000000003cb6c000
Expected: 0x000000003cb6c000
Found: 0x00000003f2b6c000
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 2.18 MByte/s
Reading speed: 9.04 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
5. Seller address
B ZUO 3104 JIA NING NA GUANG CHANG JIA BING LU, SHEN ZHEN SHI, GUANG DONG SHENG, 518000, Kina
Item no 2
1. ebay item unmber 200414100014
2. eBay Seller id xprodeal
3. Your eBay Buyer id soylentg
4. Your output from H2testw 1.4
I cant find the output right now but i tested it with h2testw
and it showed that it was only 2 GB and not 32 Gb as it was desrcibed.
5. Seller address
B ZUO 3104 JIA NING NA GUANG CHANG JIA BING LU, SHEN ZHEN SHI, GUANG DONG SHENG, 518000, Kina
Can you please guide me as what to do from this point as to return the items is out of the question and i am not planning to give up.Thank you for your time.
Brainy Bob said
Fake Fake Fake
eBay item number – 280448589222
eBay Seller id – underwaterfireman11
eBay item description – 128GB Kingston 101 Data traveler USB Flash Drive
The above listing is clearly a fake Kingston 101 Data traveler”yellow” is not manufactured with 128gb.
Most definatly a fake
Listing Violation raised with EBAY 10/1/2010 9:50
joharod09 said
Hola.
Recientemente compre 2 USB con falsa capacidad:
– 32GB USB Flash Drive 2.0 Memorias 32 GB GO #U23. (http://cgi.ebay.es/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270491761208&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT). Vendedor
berrysenior09. Realmente solo tiene 4 GB (0001 7778, alcor).
– 16Go USB FLASH DRIVE USB 2.0 PEN STICK MEMORY 16 GB J. (http://cgi.ebay.es/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220517751325&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT). Vendedor fanfan6888. Realmente solo tiene 2 GB (0001 7778, alcor).
Gracias, Jose.
ML said
Bought on eBay a 16GB Corsair Flash Voyager that turned out to be 2GB.
1) eBay item number: 250527014891
2) eBay seller ID: roy_ltd (roylin.2008@yahoo.com.cn)
3) My eBay buyer ID: ae660
4) My output from H2testw 1.4:
The media is likely to be defective.
1.9 GByte OK (4087709 sectors)
13.7 GByte DATA LOST (28852323 sectors)
Details:11.6 GByte overwritten (24531288 sectors)
13.5 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 27 sectors)
2.0 GByte corrupted (4321008 sectors)
64 KByte aliased memory (128 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x000000007cb40000
Expected: 0x000000007cb40000
Found: 0x00000003ed340000
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 2.52 MByte/s
Reading speed: 4.79 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
5) eBay item description: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250527014891&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
6) Seller address: the flash drive was mailed from
P.O. Box 87348
To Kwa Wan Post Office
Hong Kong
Dante said
Hello everybody,
I’ve just found this site 😦
I bought two 32gb usb drive from tsuihinpo168 on Ebay. After H2testw I get 4Gb only:
Warning: Only 4492 of 31984 MByte tested.
The media is likely to be defective.
3.8 GByte OK (8081408 sectors)
546 MByte DATA LOST (1118208 sectors)
Details:102.3 MByte overwritten (209664 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
443.6 MByte corrupted (908544 sectors)
192 KByte aliased memory (384 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x00000000f69d0000
Expected: 0x00000000f69d0000
Found: 0x0000000118bd0000
H2testw version 1.3
Reading speed: 11.0 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
It wasn't necessary to take all the test, 4.5Gb was enough only.
Now I have to test one sd card from seller dont.stop.music on Ebay 16Gb Obviously FAKE, one 32Gb sd card from another seller (I don't remember his nick), and I am waiting to receive a 16Gb MP4 FAKE!! 😦
Thanks and greetings from Peru – South America.
Spanish:
Hola a todos,
Acabo de encontrar este sitio.
Compre dos USB drive de 32Gb del vendedor tsuihinpo168 en Ebay. Luego del H2testw solo consegui 4Gb.:
Atencion: Solo se probaron 4492 de 31984 MByte.
El dispositivo puede estar defentuoso.
3.8 GByte OK (8081408 sectores)
546 MByte Datos perdidos (1118208 sectores)
Detalles:102.3 MByte sobreescrito (209664 sectores)
0 KByte modificado ligeramente (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectores)
443.6 MByte corruptos (908544 sectores)
192 KByte aliased memory (384 sectors)
Primer error de desplazamiento: 0x00000000f69d0000
Esperado: 0x00000000f69d0000
Encontrado: 0x0000000118bd0000
H2testw version 1.3
Velocidad de lectura: 11.0 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
No fue necesario tomar todo el test, fue suficiente 4.5Gb.
Ahora tengo que probar una tarjeta sd del vendedor dont.stop.music en Ebay 16Gb obviamente FALSA, una tarjeta sd de 32Gb de otro vendedor (no recuerdo su apodo), y estoy esperando recibir un MP4 16Gb FALSO!! 😦
Gracias y saludos desde Peru – America del sur.