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by: John Larkin - Mon, 5 Jun 2023 16:11 UTC

On Mon, 05 Jun 2023 14:52:32 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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>Blatant tech frauds run amok on the biggest online marketplaces:
> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/blatant-tech-frauds-run-amok-on-the-biggest-online-marketplaces/
>
>So beware orderung SSDs

Order real Samsung or Western Digital and pay for it, around $50 for a
terabyte.

Or $11 from ebay, free shipping.

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by: Fred Bloggs - Mon, 5 Jun 2023 19:42 UTC

On Monday, June 5, 2023 at 10:52:40 AM UTC-4, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> Blatant tech frauds run amok on the biggest online marketplaces:
> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/blatant-tech-frauds-run-amok-on-the-biggest-online-marketplaces/
>
> So beware orderung SSDs

The organized crime rings stealing several hundred billion $ from retail stores are using online markets in a big way to sell the stolen goods. The goods are the real name brand product, nobody is getting scammed, it's just stolen. At least one toolmaker has put something in the device so it won't work until activated by a legitimate receipt.

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by: Jan Panteltje - Tue, 6 Jun 2023 12:32 UTC

On a sunny day (Mon, 05 Jun 2023 09:11:55 -0700) it happened John Larkin
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>On Mon, 05 Jun 2023 14:52:32 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>wrote:
>
>>Blatant tech frauds run amok on the biggest online marketplaces:
>> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/blatant-tech-frauds-run-amok-on-the-biggest-online-marketplaces/
>>
>>So beware orderung SSDs
>
>Order real Samsung or Western Digital and pay for it, around $50 for a
>terabyte.
>
>Or $11 from ebay, free shipping.

I bought an unknown manufacturer 1 TB USB stick locally for about 50 USD.
It lived for a while, like 20 days?
It died when I inserted it into my USB hub.
Now that USB hub (connected ot a Raspberry Pi4) has been in use with a 3.4 TB Toshiba harddisk for more than a year...
I opened up the USB stick and what is interesting is that some SMD positions on its PCB
were empty, as far as I could see possible for protection diodes or the like.
Same happened to a cheap 125 GB USB stick on same Sitecom USB hub...
I have harddisks that have been in use daily for > 20 years....
These small size harddisks like the Toshiba work great with Raspberries using USB hubs.
other stuff on the hubs are for example RTL-SDR receiver sticks, audio stick, SDcard reader, geiger counter, wireless mouse and keyboard,
whatever I play with.

So, .. hard to tell what's good without testing...
PCs I mostly no longer use, maybe for bluray burning.

Subject	Author
Blatant tech fraud runs amok on the biggest online marketplaces	Jan Panteltje
Re: Blatant tech fraud runs amok on the biggest online marketplaces	John Larkin
Re: Blatant tech fraud runs amok on the biggest online marketplaces	Jan Panteltje
Re: Blatant tech fraud runs amok on the biggest online marketplaces	Fred Bloggs