Massive Ebay Fraud Memory Cards – Counterfeit Ring Ehong Xuxin China And Hong Kong – Sellers zjlee08 – fengfeng_joy2008
SOSFakeFlash had uncovered a new counterfeit ring on eBay selling fake memory cards. The false capacities are 16GB and 32GB. Generic and Transcend 32GB Fake memory cards have been sold to unsuspecting eBay buyers.
Update July 24th, 2009. fengfeng_joy2008 has changed his id name to happyyaoyao2009 as a result of articles published by the FrankenFlash project.
On June 22 2009 SOSFakeFlash issued the following alert on the internet to warn eBay members: zjlee08 Ebay Fake Flash Seller High Alert – China. This eBay seller had sold over 3000 items of fake flash capacity, including the brand name Transcend. It was estimated that zjlee08 earned over $60,000 US. On July 16 2009, eBay suspended this seller id, leaving thousands of eBay members stranded. Read zjlee08 – Suspended After 3500 Buyers Frauded On eBay
When eBay suspends a seller, all listings are removed. Victims are not able to review the item they purchased. The details of the item vanish. This hides the sellers fraud and makes it difficult for many less experienced members to file a claim with PayPal. The FrankenFlash project views this behavior as aiding and abetting criminal activity.
Meanwhile, another eBay seller id was also selling false capacity memory cards, fengfeng_joy2008. Read fengfeng_joy2008 Ebay Fake Flash Seller High Alert – China
SOSFakeFlash asks victims of false capacity nand based technology to report in using their: Report A Fake tab. Victims are asked to provide seller addressing information. As a result they were able to connect the dots for another counterfeiting ring.
zjlee08
Ehong Xuxin
P.O. Box No. 97527
TSIM SHA TEUI POST OFFICE
Hong Kong
fengfeng_joy2008
Ehong Xuxin
P.O. Box No. 97527
TSIM SHA TEUI POST OFFICE
Hong Kong
Also uncovered with the id fengfeng_joy2008:
Ms.Yan Na
Room823, GuoLi Building,
New Asia Mansion,
HuaqiangBei, Futian District,
ShenZhen, P.R.China 518000
Once more, it is clear that shipping of counterfeit flash nand technology is from Hong Hong with the “Controller” center being in China. Hong Kong is the conduit to unleash fake flash on the global public who continue to suffer data loss from these digitally altered memory cards, mp players and usb flash drives. SOSFakeFlash feels that little is being done by the Chinese Government to contain and stop the traffic. Profit rules. Damage to the global public is of little consequence. The noble ideals once held by the “revolution” are dust. A faint memory doomed to be nothing more than a footnote in history, the sacrifices made by many, for absolutely nothing. In refusing to address the problem, there is only one conclusion, China wants to enjoy the vices and weaknesses found in the western world.
Shame! Millions in China gave up so much and sacrificed. So that you would one day rush to become like us? Shame! For allowing the sale of data poison to continue!
Sold by zjlee08:
New 16GB SDHC SD High Quality Memory Card 16 GB 16GO
New 32GB SD SDHC Memory Card Secure Digital 32GO 32 GB
TRANSCEND 32GB SDHC MEMORY CARD CLASS 6 32 GB G SD HC
Sold by fengfeng_joy2008
New 32GB SDHC SD Secure Digital Memory Card 32GB 32 Go
16GB SD SDHC Secure Digital Memory Card 16Go 16 GB
Additional Reading:
Here are the a few of the item numbers of freshly ripped off ebayer’s. If you happen to find your transaction number it was becuse I reported it to ebay. BUT, EBAY was 2 days too late for my report to keep you from getting ripped off selling fake 32gb sdhc cards.If I could have contacted you, I would have.
Ebay wants to Keep the buyer silent from each other. THERE WERE HUNDREDS of buyers that I witnessed get ripped off where ebay stood by for 2 days as I persisted with several emails to them to stop Seller yaya0331. My purpose is to show how ebay is not acting dilligently enough upon quick notification of fraud and allowing several hundreds if not thousands of people to be scammed in just 2 days.
Item numbers reported included (but not limited to):
180383632432
180383632371
180383648197
180383632305
180383630540
About a dozen others I reported but don’t have the records. I have a jpeg of some of these above. If anyone needs to contact me just post here. Hundreds of ebay buyers were sold fake 32g sdhc cards by yaya0331 under partial title: 32GB 32 GB GO SDHC
scwam
July 22, 2009 at 8:41 am
I received my card from seller “vs-passion” from the same P.O. Box address as above:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320396740175
-tk-
July 24, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Bah… I bought 4 of these, just got my digital camcorder today and thought it was a piece of junk (corrupts images, video cuts out and ‘freezes’ if I try to record over 20s or so) and corrupt file messages, cant hardly start a h2test on it fails early on.
Only 1 of the 4 different buyers is gone I purchased from.
One that was suspended is: 320397323636
Other still selling are: http://myworld.ebay.com/fashionzhou/ (who has 701 rating somehow)
http://myworld.ebay.com/lalatoto.li/ (who has a 441 rating)
http://myworld.ebay.com/worldseller0988/ (who has a 1376 rating)
Now I know know how scammers got those rating, or if they just bought from the scammer and resold or what.. but all 4 are sitting right in front of me right now, all are the same blue sd hc class 6 32gb that look like trancend cards but without the trnacend label on top, and none work right.
Justin
July 25, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Hi Justin,
As you have realised it is not your camera that is junk but rather the memory cards you bought from suspected or known fraudsters. The IDs you gave are all ones we have either on our suspects list or have evidence against. They get away with their fraud because most buyers don’t test flash memory when it arrives – they just look at the properties and think it is ok. They leave positive feedback for the seller long before they learn the truth. You probably did so too.
Please look at all the refund advice on the sosfakeflash blog – this will help you get refunds for your fakes. If you manage to get test results for cards please report in with results and any other information you can provide about the seller – see the “report a fake” tab on the sosfakeflash blog.
fightflashfraud
July 25, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Here is another eBay seller selling fake LENX SDHC cards from the same address as one above:
eBay ID: cqingwushilei
Address details:
hongbo
Room823,GuoLi Building,
New Asia Mansion,
HuaqiangBei,Futian District,
ShenZhen?518031
P.R.China
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/cqingwushilei
Bill
July 25, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Alright guys, I bought from this guy too.
On my paypal his name appears as: Wang Junhua
I filed a fraud claim with paypal.
WE WILL FIGHT FRAUD!
wegotscammed
July 26, 2009 at 3:00 am
Check out the feedback left for others for this eBay seller – he’s sold literally hundreds of fake/counterfeit items in just a few short weeks. I was unfortunate enough to buy 2 fake 16GB SDHC cards from him but he point-blank refuses to refund unless I return the ‘evidence’ to him! Fat chance (I’m currently claiming my money back from PayPal)!
He is now no longer registerd on eBay (thankfully!) but he must still have made a small fortune from his scams as he left feedback for buyers (858 showing) as soon as they’d paid him.
eBay ID: excel88past88
Name: Su Jingmian
Address:
#503,A Building,
Cuijing Shanzhuang,
Taibai Road,
Luohu District
Shenzhen,
Guangdong 518000
China
Bill
July 27, 2009 at 12:05 am
scwam,
Can you post your jpeg here? I am the one who is trying to get some money back from Seller yaya0331 and I don’t have any original list saved.
pl
--pl--
July 27, 2009 at 4:10 am
To -Pl-
This is not a forum, jpegs can not be posted. Please report into sosfakeflash, see the report a fake tab. http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/report-a-fake/ Once they receive your evidence, they will investigate. yaya0331 has been suspended by eBay. There has been no negative feedback posted against this seller.
As a result of being suspended, there will be no oppportunity of frauded buyers to leave feedback now. If you and other victims wish to have an internet alert sent out against this seller you must report in. You are not going to get a 32 GB Memory card on eBay that is genuine for £15 or even £20! It is pretty obvious that yaya0331 has sold fakes. Unfortunately nothing can be done without EVIDENCE! Those are the rules for the FrankenFlash Project. They are hard, but necessary.
For the item: 32GB 32 GB SDHC Secure Digital Flash Memory SD Card HC
Many were sold. The seller was suspended by eBay. It is up to you -pl- to report in with your evidence or let this seller get away with his fraud. Once SOSFakeFlash receives evidence they will publish with the “jpeg” information etc. Please help!
kittyfireflash
July 27, 2009 at 4:30 am
Hey everyone,
In order to put the sellers on the list of ebay fake flash sellers, we need people to report in. We can’t collect the information for the database or add to the list without it. See the Report A Fake Tab at the sosfakeflash site.
KittyFireFlash
July 28, 2009 at 4:37 am
Oh I forgot to mention, the countefeit ring we dubbed “Ehong Xuxin” is growing. Those addresses are extremely important to get into the database.
KittyFireFlash
July 28, 2009 at 4:39 am
I purchased a Generic SDHC 16 mb class 6 from a seller (chance2save-money). It stored files and seemed to work, then the some files were deleted and pc wont recognize the card anymore. This seller also has a lot of negative feed backs and is no longer registered.
Shaggydog1952
July 30, 2009 at 11:02 am
This is what often happens with fake flash memory we’re afraid. Once you have exceeded the real capacity the item it frequently becomes impossible to do anything at all. This is why we recommend testing all flash memory items with h2testw before using them.
fightflashfraud
July 30, 2009 at 5:41 pm
I was looking at buying a 32GB SDHC Card on ebay and it clearly is sold as a “New Transcend 32GB” from seller lalatoto.li, I know what has been going on with the generic unlabeled cards, but what about a Transcend labeled card?
Thank you!
Lee
August 2, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Lee,
It’s not worth the risk – it’s not just generic cards that are fake capacity. Fraudsters also produce counterfeit branded goods. If you want peace of mind buy from a reputable retailer rather than on ebay.
fightflashfraud
August 2, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Ok thank you for the input, I just cannot justify spending over $100 on a 32GB card as most etailers have it priced but I guess $40-50 for these are risky.
Lee
August 2, 2009 at 3:53 pm
You have summed it up Lee – our research indicates that the profit margins on flash memory (unlike some goods) are not high. If you see a flash memory item somewhere at nearly half the price you see it advertised for at reputable etailers you can be pretty sure it is fake and will cause data corruption.
fightflashfraud
August 3, 2009 at 7:10 pm
I ordered Transcend 32 GB from ebay. But i am sad to say it didn’t work. Now I filed a dispute but ebay asks me to ship item back in order to get refund back. I will have to pay another $15 for that.
DD
August 15, 2009 at 9:30 pm
DD,
DON’T send the fake card back. Instead, argue with eBay/PayPal, as I had to, and advise them that it’s actually against the Law to send fake items back.
Good luck anyway, you’ll need it when dealing with them!
Bill
August 16, 2009 at 2:07 am
Name: Su Jingmian
Address:
#503,A Building,
Cuijing Shanzhuang,
Taibai Road,
Luohu District
Shenzhen,
Guangdong 518000
China
I am going to kill you when I come to China during Christmas. You better have a metal chastity belt around your neck because your apartment will be christmas red with be blood. dou-e.
scwam
October 7, 2009 at 7:53 pm
I bought 2 Transcend 32GB class 6 from ebay (powerstar88).
Item number: 180402013256 – 170376558655
Properties check is ok in computer, but i month later I try to test them to 5 different cameras, none of them works. They are TOTALLY FAKE!!!.
I’m going to Paypal to claim for money back
dai3030
October 20, 2009 at 11:47 pm