Fake USB sticks flooding eBay
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 7:02 pm
If the price seems too good to be true, it probably is.
I was after a 128BG drive and found one at a huge discount - about £8. Having not bought a USB drive for a few years, I assumed it was because it was the old USB 2.0 format but that was fine for my MP3s in the car. Windows reported it as 128GB but when you write your data, it goes no where. No errors are reported.
It has taken nearly 48 hours to run a diagnostic tool on the device to show it's fake. It only has 16GB of memory internally.
When you look on eBay, there are 1000s of these things from multiple sellers, many in the UK. Be warned!!
I was after a 128BG drive and found one at a huge discount - about £8. Having not bought a USB drive for a few years, I assumed it was because it was the old USB 2.0 format but that was fine for my MP3s in the car. Windows reported it as 128GB but when you write your data, it goes no where. No errors are reported.
It has taken nearly 48 hours to run a diagnostic tool on the device to show it's fake. It only has 16GB of memory internally.
When you look on eBay, there are 1000s of these things from multiple sellers, many in the UK. Be warned!!