Gremlin listing fraudsters’ favourite and counterfeit DT150 on ebay

Gremlin seller yangyanfang1226 offers the choice of counterfeit 64GB DataTraveler flash drives or the fraudster’s favourite in 64GB flavour. Neither are really 64GB – both are fake capacity and will trash your files.

We advise everyone who buys flash memory items to test them with the free program h2testw irrespective of where they were purchased – otherwise you run the risk of data loss and corruption.

Report your fake if testing confirms you have purchased fake capacity flash memory on ebay.

UK ebay member sells a fake 32GB flash drive as faulty

UK ebay member thegeekyfreak sold the “32GB” USB flash drive shown on the left on October 13th for £16.00. The drive was sold as being faulty.

It was not faulty – it was a fake capacity flash drive sold by a known ebay fraudster.

This picture and the drive in question are very familiar to the frankenflash project. Every flash drive of this model we tested turned out to be fake capacity. Such drives are programmed to fool the operating system.

UK ebayer lists three very dodgy looking flash drives on ebay

We don’t know where mobilefreak1987 got the flash drives shown below but we do know that at least two of them, and probably all three, will be fake capacity drives which trash users’ files.

Flash drives from this ebay seller will all corrupt your files

This and every other flash drive from ebay gremlin srdxtk20099 will corrupt users’ files after a while. You simply cannot buy genuine 64GB flash drives at this price – in fact they can’t even be made for this price.

We advise everyone who buys flash memory items to test them with the free program h2testw irrespective of where they were purchased – otherwise you run the risk of data loss and corruption.

Report in to SOSFakeFlash if your testing confirms you have purchased a false capacity device on ebay.

Suspect Sandisk USB flash drives listed on ebay UK

We suspect that the 32GB Sandisk USB flash drive in the listing above and the 16GB Sandisk USB flash drives listed by UK seller andcad1 could be counterfeit and fake capacity. The seller may be unaware that there could be a problem with these.

We advise everyone who buys flash memory items to test them with the free program h2testw irrespective of where they were purchased – otherwise you run the risk of data loss and corruption.

Report in to SOSFakeFlash if testing confirms you have purchased fake capacity flash memory on ebay.

Utter madness on ebay!

This listing by mamaseller2009 (registered in China) demonstates just how insane fraudsters can get in attempting to get foothold on ebay with their fake flash sales.

UK seller with dubious listings for 128 Kingston USB flash drive

Seller oceans12345 has two listings for these 128GB Kingston DT200 flash drives.

Yet another ebay gremlin with 64GB flash at silly prices

Here we have another fraudulent seller of fake 64GB flash drives from China offered for sale on ebay at prices below the cost of manufacture for genuine 64GB flash drives.

We advise everyone who buys flash memory items to test them with the free program h2testw irrespective of where they were purchased – otherwise you run the risk of data loss and corruption.

Report in to SOSFakeFlash if your testing confirms you have purchased a false capacity device on ebay.