eBay USB Thumb Drive Buyers: Beware

[Ehtyar]

It seems that eBay is still a benefactor of all things nefarious. A currently running scam on eBay involves the modification of USB thumb drives to report a higher-than-actual capacity to the operating system. A friend of mine recently purchased a 16 GB drive for $6, only to find that when attempting to copy more than 4gb of data onto the key, he would corrupt the drive. Be wary people. Read More

Ehtyar.

[Josh]

[Ehtyar]

ROFL. Love it Joshua

Ehtyar.

[raybeere]

My rule of thumb on any site is this: unless I know enough about the seller to be sure of their honesty, or unless I know of a reason why the price ought to be low, any price that looks too low to pass up is exactly the offer I want to pass up.

[wreckedcarzz]

LMAO nice poster Josh. Time to download and show it to everyone

Good article, too; I'll tell my dad about it

[Davidtheo]

We get a lot of that here in china, in fact we see so much of it here that the XPATs here think it is a big joke now. We can normally tell when someone is selling fake stuff.

Rule One: If it is not sold in the regular shops then I leave it alone.
Rule Two: If it is cheap there is a reason why.

Josh: nice photo, remains me of some stuff they sell in gongbei the Fate market in my area. hehe