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.

amaliahd Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – USA

amaliahd is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in the United States amaliahd sold 32GB Fake Flash drives. If you bought a usb flash drive from this seller you risk data loss.

516erenkoy01 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – USA

516erenkoy01is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in the United States this is one of the most slick fake flash sellers ever. He is very clever. Over 960 flash drives were sold. He is currently lying low. When an eBayer found him out, what did he do? Refund at lightening speed, apologizing, claiming defect. By doing this, few claims hit PayPals radar. Nice is it not? If one person in a 100 crys foul, he is still 99 drive sales ahead. He is accomplished in his lies – so many eBayers believed him and did not leave negative feedback allowing more victims to fall into his profit pit. 516erenkoy01is first 24 sales where for boots. Was that his calling card? The intention to walk all over eBayers?

darnubiz Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert USA – Mystery Of a Kingston DataTraveler USB Flash Drive

What behavior is worse than being an eBay seller of fake flash devices on eBay? An eBay member victim of fake flash devices who tries to sell the counterfeit drive(s) bought to other eBay members.

comp_usb Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert Deregistered USA

comp_usb was an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in the United States comp_usb sold almost 500 flash pen drives with an advertised capacity of 8GB to 16GB in nine different listings.

memoryking626 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert USA

memoryking626 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in the United States memoryking626 sold over200+ flash pen drives. memoryking626 promoted himself as “shipping from USA and Not China”.

nthewinningbidderis Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert USA

nthewinningbidderis is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in the United States, nthewinningbidderis entices by promoting “Shipped from the USA” and “USA Seller”. Offering 9 different listings for 16GB, has sold over 245+ flash drives from 20-Oct-08 to 24-Nov-08. One 16GB was actually only a true capacity of 1GB!

*mct0056* Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert USA

*mct0056* is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in the United States *mct0056* has been selling 16GB false capacity flash drives mainly from 31-Oct-08 to 20-Nov-08. He has also sold these drives in lots.

If you bought a flash drive from this USA seller, please do not use the drive until you are able to confirm with testing that you have the advertised capacity. You are at risk of data loss. Over 130+ drives have been sold.

slvrdrgn177 Ebay Fake Flash Seller High Alert USA

slvrdrgn177 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in the United States slvrdrgn177 has sold 350+ flash drives in an advertised capacity range of 8GB to 16GB. It is not the first time slvrdrgn177 has sold fake flash devices there is evidence dating back to the summer of 2008. This is his second round of fake flash selling.

elizmeliz Ebay Fake Flash Seller High Alert USA

elizmeliz is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in the United States elizmeliz has sold over 1810+ flash drives and offered 11 different listings – mainly in 16GB Advertised capacity. Promoting himself as a USA seller elizmeliz generates a false sense of security for buyers. There is evidence that this seller sold fake flash in the summer of 2008 as well. Many buyers are conned into believing the drives have a “detect” – there is nothing defective in digitally altering the drive to lie about it’s true capacity. It is also illegal.

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.

platinum_auctions01 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert USA

platinum_auctions01 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in the United States has sold over 1000+ Flash drives. The most famous counterfeits are Kingston DataTravelers at 16GB. platinum_auctions01 tries to give you a false sense of security by promoting himself as a USA based seller and offering the extra value of fast and free shipping. If you bought a drive from this American seller please test your drives immediately! Do not fall for his standard reply about the flash drive being defective. There is nothing defective about a flash drive that has been digitally altered to report a larger capacity than the flash chip actually is – it is illegal and it is fraud.

memory_world1 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert United States

memory_world1 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in United States memory_world1 has listed 7 different 16GB flash drives and sold over 1,200+ drives. Once again proving that fake flash is being sold everywhere, there is no safe eBay buying country to be found. memory_world1 has also sold 8GB drives that look like the oldest and most traditional fake found.

Currently the last drive sold was on December 2nd, 2008. The first drive was sold on September 26th with a buy now price of only $14.98 US. Negatives are now pouring in. memory_world1 is very uncooperative and doesn’t appear bothered by ebay members upset at being sold fakes flash drives. Parting memory_world1 from his fake flash profits will be a challenge, refunding buyers in full is not what memory_world1 has in on his mind. If you bought a drive from memory_world1 – test it immediately. Do not store any data on it unless you can confirm you have the advertised capacity. To see his earnings and the models investigated read on.

gbay21112 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert USA

gbay21112 has been identified as an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in the United States this seller frequently sells fake usb pen drives. SOSFakeFlash has been aware of this seller for some time and now has investigated proof. If you bought a drive from gbay21112 you should test it immediately to verify if you have the true advertised capacity – if you do not you risk data loss.

ctone51 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert USA

ctone51 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit (Fake) Flash USB drives. Based in the United States this seller sold over 100 fake usb pen drives with an advertised capacity of 8 GB. The retail packaging is from the second generation of fakes unleashed in spring of 2008.

nightstar136 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – USA

nightstar136 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit Flash USB drives. Based in the United States nightstar136 offered 14 different listings for fake flash drives. His calling card is that he is a USA seller and offers statisfaction guaranteed with speedly shipping. His listings say he has 100% positive feedback. Not true, it is dropping rapidly as his fake flash merchandise is being found out by eBayers.

Right now nightstar136 is dumping his counterfeits as fast as he can – there are currently 60 listings:

5 UNITS- 16GB USB 2.0 PEN THUMB DRIVE FLASH MEMORY 16G (260322821383)

you can buy 5 for only $91 US. It happens to be the model SOSFakeflash has investigated. This seller is counting on you being naive and not understanding what fake flash drives are all about. Review of his feedback indicates that he has previously been involved in selling false capacity flash products as far back as December 2007.

mpp*11226 Ebay Fake Flash Seller Alert – United States

mpp*11226 is an eBay seller of Counterfeit Flash USB drives. Based in the United States, mpp*11226 sold fake 8GB and 16 flash usb drives estimated at over 1,000 units. SOSFakeFlash would like to point out the use of an asterisk “*” in the sellers id, this is often a calling card for a fake flash drive seller, it confuses a lot of search engines especially eBay searching.

If you bought a flash drive from map*11226 you are at risk of data loss. There is nothing “defective” with the drive you purchased. A fake is a pen drive that has been digitally altered. The controller chip has been manipulated to lie about the true capacity of the flash drive so it looks “bigger” than it actually is. The moment you exceed the real capacity you will lose your data.

Please read on to know what to do or if you are a person who assumes that the United States is a safe country to buy flash drives from on their local eBay.

Ebay Fake Flash Guides – PayPal – Attempts to Silence the Truth

The FrankenFlash Project, eBayers Against False Capacity Flash and SOSFakeFlash have been investigating the fake flash issue since May 2008. Attempts are being make to shut down the project as we are getting too close to the truth. We have the information everyone is searching for and needs.