Organized Crime Hits eBay – Singapore Crime Ring Exposed

Warning! Singapore gangs are selling fake flash memory on eBay. They are well organized and coordinated. If you see a buyer in Singapore purchasing an item from a seller in Singapore, it is to manipulate the sellers feedback score. The feedback they leave, is most of the time, within minutes of purchase. “feedback left for others” also links them to all of the sellers in Singapore. Check the very first feedback they leave, it will always be some buyer or seller in Singapore,. They also, leave fake feedback messages: “real capacity”, “fast delivery” “made in Japan “or “passes H2testw”.

This is a special report from FakeMemorySentinel’s Spookie, investigator and lead detective in Dragon Dakel’s team. Read just how well organized this ring is, how little eBay does about it. Spookie reveals how fake flash memory crime rings are set up on eBay. After reading his report, you will be able to spot who the next Singapore eBay fake flash memory sellers will be! – TechReporters .

Spookie on eBay’s Singapore crime ring for flash memory:

Here is how it works. First, they set up an account on eBay, then activate it at a later date. They use these accounts to purchase or sell items, usually cheap items like jewelry, small capacity flash memory drives usb and sd cards or cell phone accessories, to build up the positive feedback. They later switch to larger capacity flash memory items 16, 32, 64, 128 and 256gb. They either sell you a fake capacity usb or sd card or fail to delivery the item all together.

Setting up accounts. (Note: use toolhaus.org it will take you directly to any of these sellers and it will also give you all of the negatives and neutrals).

Take hp.accessories.888, for example. He buys only 2 & 4 usb drives from Singapore sellers. I like to refer to him as a primer, he sends out positive feed back to drive up other Singapore sellers feedback scores.

Take look at his feedback page, he has a score of 37 right now and is rated at 100% , looks normal.

Check the feedback for hp.accessories.888 as a buyer from checkpoint.23, japan.quality, beancurb-88, lets.rock.now, gift.4u, sgbest.2122, supzer.price90 , my-mobile999 and value.store.555.

The feedback is identical word for word:

“Thank you for an easy, pleasant transaction. Excellent buyer. A++++++”.

Feedback left for others. Let’s go back and look at hp.accessories.888 “feedback left for others”.

He left over 194 feedbacks, with a score of 35, what happened to 159 feedbacks from sellers? Almost all buyers and sellers leave feedback. What happen? They got lazy and didn’t think anyone would noticed.

Another thing to look at under “feedback left for others” is the large numbers of sellers that are no longer registered, all are in Singapore.

Lets look at the feedback hp.accessories.888 left spicy.bar6 item # 180515496145, notice the feedback date and time, Jun-06-10 at 21:36.

The sale was on Jun-06-10 at 21:33:58 PDT, the feedback was sent less than 3 minutes after the item was sold! Same thing with united-color100 item # 27058733508 the sale was on Jun-06-10 at 21:33:53 PDT feedback was left on Jun-06-10 at 21:36 less than 3 minutes later. All of the feedback is sent out has the actual date time with the same message. These transactions are nothing but feedback manipulation.

hp.accessories.888 feedback

 

 

list of members that are setting up these accounts:

member	member	location	feedback	feedback left	difference
	since		score	for others
sg-cheapdeals	Nov-18-2009	Singapore	20	173	153
super.value2009	Sep-24-2009	Singapore	25	177	152
zflashz.2009	Nov-18-2009	Singapore	23	111	88
a.good.seller	Dec-11-2009	Singapore	28	183	155
charming.p2012	Dec-5-2009	Singapore	24	132	108
factory_price09	Nov-23-2009	Singapore	26	106	80
memory.angel233	Oct-31-2009	Singapore	26	127	101
flashprince.2009	Nov-21-2009	Singapore	20	123	103

Here is another example of feedback manipulation: checkpoint.23, item # 180508164988. Go to the item and click on view, next click on 9 sold, that will give you the purchase history, now you can see the purchase history and can compare it to “feedback for as seller”. Just match up the feedback scores on both list. All of the items sold are 4GB USB 2.0 Flash Drives. Look at some the feedback they are all fake. One says, it was tested another got it yesterday.

Where is eBay?Even if you report a violation eBay doesn’t do anything. If they do take action it is usually just the seller, but all of the buyers are violating the same feedback policy and should suspended. I guess you can look at it this way: eBay makes money off the fake sales or they are to busy. What ever they are doing, they are letting their customers down and the crooks take you money.

To learn more about how the FrankenFlash Project tracks eBay sellers registered in Singapore see:

• eBay Singapore Seller Id’s Caught List
• eBay Singapore Seller Warnings Issued

Suspect eBay Seller ids:

If you bought a fake usb flash drive from one of them, please report immediately to SOSFakeFlash using the Report A Fake Tab :

64.window.7 99*centshops 99.powerflash a.good.seller acrobaticjump aliba.801 babyrockuu best.flash100 big-birdy0 big-storez blu.tack.mouse blue.oceanlu blue.sky4511 bluebid_100 boxeduphere.76 breadtalk-2010 burbunny_10 charming.p2012 checkpoint.23 chromeg.2 clear-storee crawford.092 cruzman100 crystal-bre ctrl_alt_del7880 dance.043 drypastaaa elephoneee everydayy_shine factory_price09 factory_price09 feed back left flash*8431 fly-pork from.japann games.90u garang-barang goodbargain.2010 goodman-199 hang0ut hanyamobilee heartedwind hello.shopz hot.dog228

hp.accessories.888 iloveit.805 imagine-the-goodness its-dirt-cheap japan.quality japan.sellers japanesebento jingleinbeat jjworld*23 latelybluee latelybluee lelongsales.2010 lokthetok-x long.island999 lookn0more lopp0l m1singtelsg2010 madly.in.love49 maggieme33 magic.works13 man.power911 mantou-sweet memory.angel233 memory.king2010 meng.meng177 midwest.story miko-puca mirage.food misipoolve modely2kk motorcars-20 mr.flashmanz mushi-masteress n0bbutts net.cafe839 net.cafe839 newly.flash noodles.8822 nutty-day one.twoshore own.storee pandaflash-x passs-didi pewpewpewa1

pigleg_21 pingfendell pinkish-tint pinkish-tint pizzahut.932 priceless.shop psp.cam quest.for.best remote.car royal-pulls season.out secret.key2012 sense.of.muneyz sg*hotchilli sg.break.dance sg-cheapdeals shumi–the sim_toh200 smartbro.132 smoke-bad snowman_688 soootong spicy.bar6 super.value2009 super130hoot survived.the.ordeal thai.boxing top*grade999 top*seller232 under-world234 undo.redo.copy56 united-color100 united-color100 usddollarstore2010 vernice.dream vinlkl vooice.out walkin-7282 warm.affairs we.give.u.best.quality werdebest what-a-craze xyz.zoup yesman.191 zflashz.2009

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