On Sat, Jan 23, 2021, at 5:27 AM, Roger Heflin wrote: > I think the key part of these scams is the long shipping times. That > gives the scammer 16-20 days of sales before the real reviews start > coming in with 1-star that the product is fake. And after those start > the scammer has very likely already started the new ad for a new > product with its good fake reviews. Searching on ebay for 2tb flash I > see lots of fake 2tb devices, and some of the listings look pretty > carefully done. Likely whoever you bought yours from already has > their new listings up to continue the scam. > > Besides Ebay, I have seen what looks like similar scams on other > websites. So if something has a high shipping time for a high volume > sales item be worried. > > Most of the items that have valid high shipping times are uncommon low > volume items that it is likely they are only selling a few of per > month. Out of curiosity I checked Amazon. "2tb usb flash drive" Sure enough, for just $19.99. The first review shown: This is not a 2tb drive Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2020 Verified Purchase This product is falsely listed as 2tb. When inserted into a computer, it will report itself as 1tb, but it isn't even that - after some investigating I found that it's actually an 8gb drive with some malware on it that causes it to misreport its size. This is a straight-up 100% scam. -- Doug Herr fedoraproject.org@xxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
