ebay alert! test flash drives from 2010guangying29 with h2testw!

This USB flash drive from ebay seller 2010guangying29 is certain to be fake capacity and a fake capacity USB flash drive corrupts 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.

ebay fake flash fraudster yiping888 sells 300 items in one listing!

EBAY ALERT! 300 counterfeit and fake capacity 128GB Kingston DT200 USB flash drives sold on eby by yiping888 in a single ebay listing!!

We bet that ebay fraudster yiping888 could not beleive his (or her) luck when a single ebay member bought no less than 280 of the 300 counterfeit and fake capacity 128GB DataTraveler USB flash drives in a buy it now listing (ebay item number 130385485482) – what a windfall!

The seller can now sit back and wait to see whether anyone was smart enough to think there might be something a bit suspect about the tiny price (£22 per item) and decide to search the internet for information. Let’s hope they do – and see this bit of advice:

It costs an awful lot more than £22 to manufacture a genuine 258GB Kingston DataTraveler 200 USB flash drive! If you were foolish enough to buy these from yiping888 then you have landed yourself a fake. These flash drives should all have individual serial numbers which can be verified with Kingston.

We can say without a shadow of a doubt that buyers will not be able to verify these. If the flash drive arrives and you test the first 8192 megabytes (8GB) with h2testw you are likely to discover that errors are reported by the program on anything after about 3800 megabyties.

Why? Because these are counterfeits and counterfeits are always fake capacity. Selling counterfeit items is a criminal offence – but with the anonymity that ebay gives sellers it can be rather difficult to track determined fraudsters (especially in China) down.

This is well illustrated by a recent incident. A member of our team asked repeatedly for contact details for a seller (because the address given by the seller for return of a faulty item looked highly suspect) but got no details from ebay despite numerous requests, messages and even phone calls to the Phillippines! Trust them? trust them not!!

There are also lots of generic (non brand name) fake capacity flash drives sold on ebay – more difficult still for buyers than getting refunds for obviously illegal counterfeits! All fake capacity memory items report a false capacity to the operating system and corrupt anything after the real capacity (usually 4GB or less) is exceeded.

We will be watching out for ebay listings from the buyer who bought 280 of these – they obviously were not for personal use! If you spot a likely listing before we do then please report it here!!

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.

Ebay Alert! Suspect seller doctorxu88 uses private listings

Seller doctorxu88, located in Hong Kong, became an ebay member at the beginning of April 2008. There appears to have been no activity on this account between registration and 23 January 2006. Now there are a large number of USB flash drives in private listings by doctorxu88. It seems likely that this was an ID set up by one of the well known fraudsters in preparation for a previous ID being clobbered by Ebay. Private listings for flash drives are generally a sign of fraud. The use of private auctions on ebay is a common ploy by devious sellers to cover their flash fraud tracks and make it difficult for fake flash angels to warn their victims.

Ebay fraud – ebayers who warn buyers about fraud attacked!

Reports from ebayers who were warning buyers about fake flash and those who were warned by other ebayers that the drives they bought were suspect suggest Ebay is launching a round of attacks against the ebayers who are doing what ebay itself has singularly failed to do until now.

Alert! test usb flash drives bought from rongcle with h2testw.

Ebay seller rongle has been on fightflashfraud’s watch list since becoming a member at the beginning of December. We considered this seller could be suspect immediately listings appeared as several pictures were exactly the same as those of de-registered fraudsters. This is probably one of our old “friends” returning with a new ID. An ebayer has contacted fightflashfraud saying that the drive he bought turned out to be 2GB not 16 – no surprise to fightflashfraud! We are awaiting test results from this ebayer – when these arrive a picture of the drive in question will be added to this post.

Ebay alert! Ignorance is not bliss – UK fake flash seller sarahc0178

UK seller sarahc0178 who has only been an ebay member since 15/11/08 has listed 4 x 128GB Voyager flash drive on buy it now for £140 with bidder IDs kept private. Three have already been sold. This item does not exist. Corsair do not make a 128GB Voyager. This seller apparently bought from a Chinese wholesaler – and as we all know this is where the majority of fake flash items come from.

Ebay Alert! paypalzzg9527 suspected as fraudster

Fightflashfraud suspects that ebay seller paypalzzg9527 who has been selling flash drives in private auctions is a fraudster selling fake flash. If you bought a flash drive from this seller test it immediately with h2tesw (free program which you can download from the testing category) and send results to both fightflashfraud@gmail.com and sosfakeflash@gmail.com