Fake hard drive warning

[Jan]

Beware fake hard drives sold online

Amazon.com shoppers should be wary of fake but positively-reviewed portable hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs) selling on its marketplace.

Review Geek recently found several 16TB portable HDDs and SSDs from unfamiliar brands on Amazon selling for around $100 (R1,700) or less.

 

[Death]

Back in the day, someone I knew got one of these except it was a flash drive inside the 2.5" housing. Same bit of reporting as X amount of space.

 

[rvZA]

Next the scammers change the pricing from $100 to $1000 and scam millions more.

 

[G.A.S]

If it sounds too good to be true ... it is.

But rather, stay with names you know too. And/or make sure the seller is in fact who you thing it is.