October 2009 – Ebay Fake Flash Seller Hot List

These eBay sellers need the attention of all Fake Flash angels and commando’s:

1. showwhat
2. kinhome88
3. safe2star
4. upcomingtrend Mission Accomplished

showwhat

showwhat was chased by eBay members and took a fake flash selling break. He is back with a vengeance. What is he selling that is new? 32GB fake usb flash drives! People will lose both data and money unless he is forced to take another “break”! Can you help warn buyers? Read:

• showwhat Ebay Fake Flash Seller High Alert Devious – China

safe2star

safe2star has been around for a long time. This is another powerseller who uses a lot of private auctions. What will it take to have safe2star suspended? Read:

• safe2star Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert Devious – Hong Kong.
• safe2star Scam Fraud On Ebay – Seller Continues To Evade Buyers. eBay Does Not Step In To Suspend Seller For Fake Memory MP Players and Memory Cards
• safe2star Violates eBay FeedBack Policies – Seller Of Fake Flash Memory Products – Massive Fraud

kinhome88

kinhome88 is managing to sneak through the cracks. Formerly this seller only sold MP Player fakes but has now graduated to selling fake usb flash drives. Can he be stopped? Yes, if people contact buyers and make eBay and PayPal’s life a misery. Read:

• kinhome88 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – China
• Yogi’s Fake 32GB MP Player From kinhome88 eBay Fake Flash Memory Seller – Charger Blows Up

upcomingtrend

This is the worst offender on ebay at the moment. upcomingtrend is using private auctions and is a powerseller with a very high score. Check his feedback and if you see “Private” for an eBay item number, it is hiding a fake! Please contact anyone who left positive feedback. Report listings to eBay. How people chose to address this seller is up to them and according to their conscience.

upcomingtrend has been STOPPED! Thank you everyone for all the effort put in.

Read:

• upcomingtrend Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – China
• upcomingtrend Ebay Fake Flash Seller Warning Alert – China
• eBay Fraud – Heng Fung House – Home To eBay Counterfeit Ring – Lei Sio Hong. Connected To The Don Of Fake Flash In the Orient – 3ToTrade. SOSFakeFlash Investigation.

If you can spare 15 minutes a day, please help! Warn buyers for these sellers! Read:

• How To Warn Others On eBay As A Fake Flash Angel – Fight Back Against Fake MP Players, Memory Cards, USB Flash Drives – A Guide
• How Contacting eBay Buyers OF Fake Memory Purchases Saves Others – A Victim’s Thank You!

These sellers are on theHot List, Will you help make them history? If you are a victim of fraud on eBay, make a difference, fight back, warn others and contribute by saying NO! Help your fellow eBay members, save them from data loss. Help them to march to PayPal and claim refunds. Money is hard to earn these days, fraud should not be part of the “eBay experience”, neither should members suffer the loss of their valuable data.

Yogi’s Fake 32GB MP Player From kinhome88 eBay Fake Flash Memory Seller – Charger Blows Up

Buying a false capacity MP3 MP4 Player on eBay happens all the time. SOSFakeFlash is also receiving reports that these items often have a dangerous wall charger too – they “blow up” and can lead to electrical fires!

On June 25, 2009 SOSFakeFlash Published: kinhome88 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – China

You should read the email from the kinhome88 in that alert! It may explain why he has been able to continue frauding through the summer of 2009 and continues unchallenged in the Fall of 2009. kinhome88 now also offers those fake usb memory flash pen drives SOSFakeFlash has seen a few too many times.

eBay buyer victim “Yogi” bought this 32GB Touch Screen MP3 MP4 Player from kinhome88:

Yogi provided the following listing description from kinhome88:

PACKAGE INCLUDED
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32GB Touch Screen MP3 MP4 Player
USB Data & Power Supply Cable
High Quality Earphone
USB Wall Charger (Free Gift!!!)

Yogi said:

Received a Wall Charger which BLEW up !See picture

Yogi Observed:

High Quality Earphone….it’s subjective….

The 32GB player with 2,8 inch screen….After putting more than 2 GB on the memory the problems start to arise. corupt files etc.
Because of the site.. I decided to open the MP4 player. It has a Samsung memory chip :

SAMSUNG Flash
K4S281632C-TC1L

The Hardware chip is:
ANYKA AK3631LQ14402
FS01F9

SOSFakeFlash had a lot of difficultly trying to find this the memory chip at Samsung: K4S281632C-TC1L when found, the serial was for SDRAM and was an EOL product (end of life). Very confusing. The investigators have no idea what to make of this. An SDRAM flash memory chip being used in an MP Player? Or was it a counterfeit nand memory chip, using a legal serial number from Samsung? Or was this chip “converted” to be used in low quality MP Players because it was an EOL memory chip? At the moment no one really knows.

Yogi on testing the capacity:

Output of H2Test 1.4.. after completing the writing of the 32 GB and the verify starts it complained about errors and it/… crashed.
Because the writing of 32 Gb takes so very long I didn’t do the test again.

Yogi has filed a claim with paypal as do many eBay victims.

Yogi’s false capacity MP Player, reveals two additional facts buyers need to be aware of:

1) Wrong storage memory chips being used, possibility of counterfeit knock offs or recycled chips that should not be used in MP Players.

2) Wall chargers that are an electrical hazard. Yogi’s MP Player was damaged as a result. Wall chargers that are sub standard and not properly certified could damage your electrical outlet, MP Player and possibly start a fire in your home.

In hunting for unrealistic bargains on eBay you could end up with much more than a false capacity memory item.

Meanwhile kinhome88 continues to fraud and SOSFakeFlash sees little evidence of buyers attempting to contact and warn others who bought from this seller. As a result, kinhome88 will to earn and to sell fake memory items to unsuspecting eBay members.

If you feel this is wrong, lend a helping hand, warn buyers of kinhome88.

• How To Warn Others On eBay As A Fake Flash Angel – Fight Back Against Fake MP Players, Memory Cards, USB Flash Drives – A Guide
• How Contacting eBay Buyers OF Fake Memory Purchases Saves Others – A Victim’s Thank You!