You’re Getting Scammed By….Amazon?
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- čas přidán 10. 05. 2022
- Amazon seems to be a place where scammers come flocking to sell falsely advertised products. Last time we took a look at power banks and found out that they were completely lying about their advertised capacities. This time we decided to test out USBs and see if we had a similar result. Let's just say, you'll be shocked by what we found. Be safe out there...
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Yaa better to buy legit brands
First
Hi
I learned that the hard way 🙃
Yea
Yea
Just for context. At 5:50 the drive displayed may be a clone of device called a rubber ducky (which the image shown for a few frame is). While not super common, they are a real threat to your computers since they can be used to open backdoors, script viruses, etc (they are basically just a digital keyboard that can type super fast). But these aren't the only issue. While that device doesn't look like a USB killer or a normal keystroke injector, there is still the very real possibility that the USB controller (what gives standard information data like storage capacity, model, etc) could have been rewritten to not only change the read size, but could also contain malicious data (like a keystroke injector but a little more limited)
If anyone wants to try anything like this, get a cheap computer and physically disconnect it's modem or install a different OS on it like Debian. This seems like overkill but if it can't connect to the internet and if the virus written can't be read by the OS by default, it improves your odds at staying safe.
And if you do feel like you have been infected. Run an antivirus check (doesn't matter what brand as long as you trust it. And if that doesn't suit you; try transcript or something else on GitHub)
But in best practice
Don't plug random USB drives you find laying around or use fishy products
mans edumacated
@@PhoneRepairGuru or use a PC that you dont care about. Thats what i do.
Suspicious USB: exists
me: TIME TO PLUG THIS SHIT INTO MY CRAPPY ASS PC!
@@TOWGyt even if you use a PC you don't care about, some malware can log your data and send it to the creator. This can include passwords, banking information, GPS location... so it is best to make sure there is no way that computer can communicate with the internet
@@PhoneRepairGuru lol it say translate into English bc you use such big words
i just use a pc that can barely run windows 10
This is a great video for those people that think “I can get this one with more storage for less”
I usually just go to my nearest Best Buy store and get SD cards, USB drives when they are on sale. I got a 5 TB external hard drive at Best Buy which was a good investment. Stay safe out there and in the digital world.
It was an enterprise one but I got an 18tb exos and have a 4tb barracuda...didn't know the exos was a different plug at the time😅
There's no bestbuy on my state, but I once was in one, I would REALLY appreciate if they could locate one on here 😢
@@dimagass7801 That Exos was probably a SAS drive, which is meant for server use and not for consumers.
Or you can learn to quit buying random stuff from random brands that don't exist and don't buy stuff that's obviously fake, and you can still end up getting a USB drive for half the price of Best Buy that's actually legit because you decided to quit being lazy?
there's no best buy in brazil 😭
Thank you for bringing more visibility to this Amazon scam. In my opinion, the worst part of the scam is that if someone uses the USB drive like normal and writes more data than the true capacity, it will start overwriting data that has already been written, causing permanent data loss. It's heartbreaking seeing reviews of these fake USB drives and SD cards where someone tried to use it to store important data, like for a wedding photo shoot, only for it to disappear, and they don't find out until it's too late.
@@tomkrstk there is no problem in using a real usb drive or card for storage, it's the fakes you gotta watch out for.
I don't really feel bad for those people, it's on them that they bought a 2TB drive for 20$ and used it for important data. Wish I had their info because I have a bridge to sell them as well. No excuse for ignorance nowadays, with how easily accessible information is.
It's not an "Amazon scam," it's people being too lazy to learn that this 2tb drive from a brand that doesn't exist and isn't actually fulfilled by Amazon and has fake reviews isn't real and blaming Amazon for their own laziness
Great videos as always. Please make more "_____ COMPANIES ARE LYING TO YOU....." videos.
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@@choahjinhuay ong
3:15 ok i pull up
Him saying he needs to use multiple computers to to increase efficiency is a well hidden flex
why is that flex?
@@edwardthecar2300 people normally dont have 5 computers laying around lol. I myself have only 4.
@@ratulsaha9487 don't mind that 3 of mine are 4gb ram potatoes
And my PC and laptop
@@ratulsaha9487 nice flex
@@ratulsaha9487 only?
I love that he's a phone repair guy, but his phone is broken 😂
After many such experiences (mines and others'), my sole goal is to go for popular, reputed, well known brands ONLY whenever shopping online or offline.
2:56 did you saw the spark?
This is why I just by my ssd's and hard drives from just a tech store or just your local best buy lol 😆
Bruh
walmart, best buy, etc have all been caught selling fake tech, especially usbs and sd cards and such multiple times
@@skylarkblue1 never once had a issue from best buy or walmart with tech unless they just put fake logo's on everything then sad
@@AnimeFan4Life2022x I'm not from america so I can't verify myself, but there has been a ton of reports about it and people investigating it
@@skylarkblue1 alright
I like these longer videos. Especially this one. I'm now going to stick with SanDisk. They have always been my first choice.
Samsung and PNY are reputable too
Even sandisk did this in the wifi flash drive you can check they are using sd card inside for storage
I just use a cloud-service lol
@@bot.69 Yes, but it's Sandisk. It's a legitimate company. You don't need to worry about a virus.
Sandisk or another reputable brand.
Another risk you can encounter when plugging an unknown USB drive into your computer. USB killers are devices that look USB sticks but are actually full of capacitors, which charge from the power source on the port and then send an electric pulse through your motherboard an will most certainly destroy your computer.
I have no idea why anyone would ever do something like this, but some people are willing to do anything to ruin another person day.
Sauce: czcams.com/video/ctByXhte_-A/video.html + a lot of own research, because I, as a hobby electronics engineer, find this topic really interesting.
thankfully a lot of newer technology in the past years have protection against usb killers. still not a risk anyone should take.
They are actually very useful little devices.
@@TheNpcNoob Holup
@TRXP RFT useful if you plan on destroying a school computer lab that is, like that kid in College Saint-Rose
And you expect us to click your mystery link??
You can definitely sue Amazon with this new information
I wish you could. The goons selling the "bad" things are storefronts. That's how Amazon gets away with it.
Well... You'd be able to get after the seller. I'd be hard to go after Amazon directly.
Nope, Amazon is like a 'middle man' who or a broker sort of ,so if he gives you fake items you can't sue Amazon but you can **PROBABLY** sue the seller
I got so scared in the beginning when I spotted the Sandisk one. I got this one for my birthday and I know it was kinda expensive. I got so relieved when you said it was legit. I would feel so bad for my dad who bought it for me, if it was actually fake, like I already felt bad he spend so much money on me + if he would have got scammed, it would break my heart.
Aww that's honestly really sweet, coming from a father. 😊 When the video started, I said to myself the Sandisk will be the only one true and legit, and reliable. You can usually rely on SanDisk, PNY, Samsung, Western Digital (not sure if they make USB drives or mem cards but they're still a storage medium company), Avant, etc. I know there's more but I can't recall them all right off. Anyways, that drive should last you a long time long as you take care of it. 😎
p.s. I actually have a 64GB Sandisk USB drive that only holds my PC copy of GTA V on it for backup, and it's been that way for roughly 5 years now and shows no signs of problems!
@@digitalchaos1980
p.s. flash memory lasts way longer than disks.
@@JACKHARRINGTON Yes, I'm quite very aware of that.
@@digitalchaos1980 Still best to check the reputability of the seller too, unfortunately straight up counterfeits do also exist. Basically they are often just the same shitty ass fakes with fraudulent branding and often a price point much closer to what a legit device would cost. So make sure the seller is well respected and read the reviews to make sure they are really for the right product etc as this review bait and switch tactic is not uncommon.
My grandpa got scammed buying ( only slightly cheaper) AirPods 😕
Wow this needs to be raised , who much scams have they made so far
Props to you for putting the hardworking in to record the time lapses for us too 👏
1:24 What you could do here is to activate ReadyBoost if your computer would allow to, then copy the large ReadyBoost cache files to fill up the storage.
Wow great video, very disturbing. There is definitely a ton of crap on Amazon and it's good that you're bringing light to this. Thank you.
This is one of the biggest issues on the Amazon platform and it’s frustrating cause the company doesn’t seem to be doing much about it.
Because they can't, they're not the ones fulfilling the fake stuff, it's on the Amazon Marketplace (packed and shipped by a different company but listed & sold on Amazon). Usually it will get reported and the seller will get banned but they can't do anything if people don't report it and blame Amazon for being bad because they're lazy.
5:37 I saw one like that on another channel and the SD actually had 1TB or 2TB written on it
Oh there are plenty of fake SD cards too so that does not surprise me in the slightest.
Please keep exposing these filthy scammers
00:40 open it up ... unscrew lol 😆 😂 🤣 🔥 🔧 🔨
At 3:08 who noticed a shooting star?
Not all of the usb companies are lying because San disk is a credible company to buy on Amazon anyway good video.
obviously the reputable ones aren't lying lmao, what kind of comment is that
@@HearMeLearn yeah because I thought he was referring to all of them but I was just saying that a certain percentage of them are reputable
Just because the package and usb key say Sandisk, does not mean it's from sandisk when talking about Amazon. Fakes come in legit looking packages too.
I got one recently that was actually the capacity promised but not the speed. It also got especially hot and would slow down to a crawl.
I love the brevity in this video. Good work
Thank you for posting this.
0:48 is kinda sus
I feel like amazon should have a responsibility for the items sold on their marketplace.
They should be held accountable, but that probably wont happen cus they probablt make too much money off it.
They do, but they can't do anything if people don't report the fake items for being fake.
There will never be laws protecting the consumer from this scummy practice as long as our spineless politicians keep on accepting money from them to not address this issue
Love your long form content!!! please do more!
Very nice video .......keep doing these type of videos bro .......we enjoyed and learned a lot about scam........
Thanks!
pretty brave of you plugging it into your main laptop
3:40 They can be USB3 but they most of the time use recycled or rejected chips, which just cant keep up with USB 3 speeds (heck, not even USB 2 speeds)
Thanks man, this is really big.
Great and informative video! Thank you for making it!
IT specialist here: #1.To see the actual capacity of a usb is by checking the volume of the usb via the Disk management tool which is a Windows tool. #2 usb speed is determine by the file system the usb was formatted in , so normal usb are FAT32 because of their small capacity.# 3 the third usb with an SD card, those are called BAD USB Rubber Ducky. The computer recognises them as HID "human interface device" like your keyboard. So your computer will trusts it, but it's main function is to execute commands with the intension to steal data or pictures ....etc. luckily for you nothing malicious happen because it was recognised as a mass storage.
Also IT specialist here, Many of these scam USB drives (PERSONAL Experience here) still show up in disk management. I have had dozens upon dozens of people come to my desk since COVID started asking this, and about 8/10 would still show up in disk management as 1 TB or 2 TB. I am not entirely sure I am not a programmer or anything like that, but a lot of them have fooled that area of windows as well.
There was a couple that peaked my interested, someone brought in a 3 TB and a 5 TB USB, I booted it into Linux, Linux also detected it as 3 & 5 TB, but what really made me scratch my head is I had looked at it while doing a fresh Windows 10 install one day, and They ALSO Showed up when selecting the partition to install W10 on there, as 3 & 5 TB. (In reality their sizes were 32 GB and 64 GB, respectively)
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It’s in description of video
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Good job I love watching your vids
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Lol
oh yeah
This is such a helpful video as I just came back from traveling and want to put my picture and videos on an external hard drive/ usb and was on planning on buying it from Amazon!! So thank you soooo much for such helpful video
the concluding part is one of why I love your videos lol
Once you said they were 16GB to 64GB I thought to myself what if there was a micro usb card inside?? Turned out there was 🤣🤣
i have a "64" gb usb i bought off amazon... and the total capacity was actually 2GB this made be very sad 😢
From the beginning of the video, I thought it was a bad idea plugging those into your regular usage computers ... That was very brave!
Wow, thanks for all the info
Amazon: 2TB USB, im not lying
PRG: *CAP* ❎
Wish: Hmmm... i think im better than you..
That does look similar to a Bad USB or a Rubber Ducky, which yeah, can have drastic effects on the computer, but normally it functions as a HID (like a Keyboard) and from there, normally ends up opening programs like cmd or the Terminal, but for a virus, it would more likely try and guide you through a website.
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Thank you
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this has been a problem for years. i noticed when my gopros and other cameras kept getting corruption. at the time there way almost no information about this, but at the deepest corner of the internet i saw one single comment about amazon having chinese fakes that look real, even packaging too. i went to best buy or microcenter, i dont' remember now, and bought samsung and sandisk sd cards, all class 10, and threw the old ones from amazon out. never had a single failure since. it's definitely a problem. buy brick and mortar to avoid this
You know what you should do? Go get a lawyer and sue them ALL on small claims court for $10,000, for false advertising
You'll make fat stacks, and scare companies into being honest all at once
@Phone Repair Guru
What happened after you tested and made the video? Did you inform amazon,? Did you report the SD card USB or examine it further? What company was it so people can avoid it?
Amazon full of scam as usual, someone should do something about this.
Thank you too for the video it was funny and interesting as always.
Sadly they do not do much about it. Reporting those listings gives no result.
Even listing saying you have to contact them outside of amazon/the site, are just ignored
Just don't order from Scamazon.
yee yesterday i saw an obviuos gpu scam on amazon and after i saw the reviews i was shocked how many people bought it and fell for the scam, even after the 1star ratings people bought the fake "1050ti" (which was actually some old nvidia card with 500mb of vram)
5:43 It reminds me about Sandisk Ixpand which uses a Micro SD card instead of a normal chip (I'm not even joking I tore mine down because it died and it was literally a Micro SD card, at least I got a working Micro SD card)
many cheapo usbs use sd cards ive opened ones with it just hotglued to an sd card adapter and basically put in a plastic box
@@avacado6399 Yea but the IXpand isn't cheap... That's the problem :(
@@enzoduvernay4540 its "cheap" but its not cheap
@@avacado6399 Yea I see
Had the same issue, you can set a partition to change what it reads as and set it as the true value
There is also a scam in which they code in the pendrive deletes your previous content when you reach its actually capacity to make you think that it has actually a high amount of storage
You should make more long video.everyone will love it.🙂
What are you gonna do with all those usbs?
Great vid dude!!
I do phone repairs for a living. I just started but repaired my first 13 pro today. Really enjoy what i do and enjoy learning new skills every day!
I’m very happy for ya🙌🏼
2:03 nuttella in the top left corner
3:05 Why does the minutes hand go faster than the seconds hand O.O
I saw these for sale about a year ago when looking for one. The high capacity for the low price seemed to sketchy to me, and I didn’t recognize the brands. I ended up going with a SanDisk drive, and this makes me glad that I did.
I was about to buy a few, thanks for the heads up.
lets just accept the fact that 99.99% of electronic gadgets from online stores are questionable at best.
No, if you do proper due diligence your fine.
Also for Amazon if you buy products that are sold and dispatched by Amazon you are 100% fine (give and take the odd delivery driver/ warehouse worker who steals your item)
@@TheNpcNoob (give and take the odd delivery driver/ warehouse worker who steals your item)
@@navigatorofnone that’s an issue with all warehouses and delivery companies lol. If you seriously believe that only Amazon workers steal them you’ve got bigger problems than were you shop.
@@TheNpcNoob the delivery people of my online shop has never stolen any products they sell.
some sellers are sketchy and thievig but the delivery people never steals.
you know why? because they are independent, they rely on product delivery for a living. they dont work for any companies.
@@navigatorofnone and? That doesn’t even apply to what I was talking about. Independent, self employed delivery drivers are not huge companies with thousands of workers…
I always laugh at the loyalty behind Amazon product buyers. Although they have some protections in place. It doesnt stop the ridiculous amounts of fake sellers with no actual product. Most will click ebay and or other site like allibaba etc. Ghost or drop ship you product from there and sell it sometimes 400% higher then what it cost them on the sites you decided to not buy from.
That ending has a better plot twist than Netflix drama shows..
I remember the 8 bit guy made an similar video but you might get more recognition than his and that's an good thing considering now more people know about this scam. It was an problem 10 years ago and it still is now.
around 2013 SanDisk used to make these red Flashdrives, i have one still to this day. one day i dropped it and the casing split apart, and i noticed that it was also actually an sd card reader. the SD was a legid sandisk sd card tho, i guess it made sense for them to make it that way at that time. and i am100% sure it is an official san disk product.
I used to have those red Drives like 5-6 but they are legit without a sd card maybe your are scammed. Kingston and sandisk never do that.
I had a SanDisk Blade with a SD inside it back around 2014/2015. I immediately ran H2TestW and... It was the real capacity. No trickery going on here, it was a 32GB SanDisk USB with a real 32GB SanDisk SD inside it. I still use the SD to this day in my cellphone, and it's working like the real deal!
@@tsuyunobradley4439 yup is a real product mine is this one sort of big red drive with a black cover that spins around itself. Very good fidgety tool hahaha
@@EnaBBQ I guess it was an emergency stop gap because they didn't have enough pure NAND available? I'm not a USB designer, I'm a software developer, so I'm not the one to ask. But I have swapped parts around for similar but not quite same parts (i.e. 2x4GB DDR3 instead of a single 8GB DDR3, so you still have 8GB of RAM but it's just because I was short on or had no 8GB sticks in stock.)
What animal was that? At 2:50 I live in Australia we don’t have those lol
It's a capybara
I’m in australia too and people talk about it on yt it’s a capybara
I love how you dedicate time to put usb’s in you computer but didn’t look.
The ending is legendary
You’re hilarious man 😂😂😂😂
Let amazon know... they might still not care, but at least the should be made aware of that scam... that is crazy...
Jeff Bezos is a WEF Puppet Young Global Leaders, ofc he knew what he was doing
Ah yes, when something is too good to be true, it probably is....
Thanks for busting these Liars.
Hats off to him who spend 600$ only to aware us from buying these...
6:09 lol minuites any one noticed
i did
0:27 Did he actually smash his phone in the making of this video 😳
He has a ton of them so he can afford such a stunt haha
My hero. *Phone guru/Batman watching the Amazon in a brooding manner from atop of a building*
I hope nothing bad happens because of that USB. Stay safe man
Dont mind wasting my time on your channel even though i got exam with so much syllabus 🤪
Ouf Get to studying
@@PhoneRepairGuru I'm tired of studyi for 6 months 😵
pro tip: you could format every flash drive and see its real size instead of just waiting all the night for that and i think you can see the usb version from device manager under driver properties it would saved you a ton of time
Love your content keep it up
Ah you can’t actually it doesn’t change anything
Yeah the data of the drive is literally like, re-programmed into it. It's not just a format choice.
@@PhoneRepairGuru i always try that and it works for me
@@skylarkblue1 i saw a program for that years ago
and yes it does the same thing that we saw in the vid but to fix it you just format the usb
Many of them have custom firmware written to the controllers. No amount of reformatting will restore its original size in those cases.
Some may work if it wasn't a firmware change, but I would say most don't.
Tip you can specify a smaller amount if data to test with h2testw. I normally start small at 2gb and work my way up until i find the capacity. Just make sure to delete data between tests
The ending somehow actually got me
Thx for the tips bro
You're goated for including the capybara at 3:13
Thank for making I had a idea of it but now im 100 percent only sticking with real brands
Awesome video Bhaijaan ☺️😎and thanks 👍👍
this is why i always go to the manufacturer website and buy directly from them or the same company on ebay
The usb was like “nah he found out lets highjack the video” at the ending of the video
Thank you for making this video
Amazing there are so many fakes. Sharing this to spread the word!
AliExpress: hold my storage
I remember buying a USB from amazon before, I opened the case and found a 64GB "SanDisk" micro sd card, a few months later the SD card got corrupted
We seriously need to report these fake companies on Amazon this is getting out of hand
This was a great find man! My dad came to me one day said he bought 2 1TB USB drives and I was like for how much? It was 2 for 30$ at the time, same as you I used that program and found out they were 32 GB each... These scams has to stop. It was wish btw, not amazon...
You could buy SanDisk ultra for 11$ 128gb rn