Transcend 32GB Counterfeit USB Flash Drive Found On eBay – JetFlash V30
Transcend joins Sony and Kingston to have counterfeit USB Flash Drives sold on eBay. JetFlash V30 line had a maximum genuine capactiy of 16GB in size. Transcend, like Kingston uses colour coding to distinguish different capacities. Currently targeted by counterfeit flash sellers is the 4GB model that is being supersized to astonishing 32GB capacity. It this 4GB model is also pretenting to confuse and to sneak in at 16GB a genuine size. Only the true 16GB has the pink band not green.
Sold on eBay by hellopetpet was a 32GB Flash drive.
Notice the colour band is green. The colour coding chart for the JetFlash V30 shows:
So green would be a 4GB usb flash drive and not a 32GB flash drive. The ebayer who performed the testing with H2testw 1.4 reported what size? 4GB!
This same model (green code) is for sale right now on ebay as 16GB by…
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16GB USB Flash Memory Stick Drive Pen Thumb 16GO #Trans Item number: 270354142602
How many other eBay sellers have recently sold the green 4GB JetFlash V30 at a supersized false capacity? If you bought one please test it! H2testw 1.4 – Gold Standard In Detecting USB Counterfeit Drives If it turns out you bought it on eBay and is a fake, please Report A Fake to SOSFakeFlash.
Also read: Guide – Protect Yourself Against Counterfeit Fake Transcend USB Flash Drives – Product Verification
I Have fake jf v30/32gb it doesn’t format using ntfs
Michael
October 15, 2009 at 7:49 am
I BROUGHT JET FLASH V30 32GB BUT THAT IS NOT WORKING PROPERLY COPYING EVERY THINKG BUT REPLACE THE FLASH NOTHIG IS THERE
VINOD
November 10, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Hi VINDOD
That suggests it is a fake capacity device, as this is exactly what happens with these. Everything seems to be written to the drive but then when you go to use it later files have either vanished altogether or become corrupted.
fightflashfraud
November 10, 2009 at 1:13 pm
It is the same with all tistimony with the other who bought JF V30/32Gb flash drive. It is not working properly. I wonder why how this things sold to the market without QC.
Jamesdxb
November 14, 2009 at 11:43 am
to Jamesdxb,
It is not a case of quality control, it is a matter of deliberate fraud.
fightflashfraud
November 14, 2009 at 12:13 pm