As is well known, there is a lot of lousy scams in technology. This father probably went on the glue to one: Actually, he only wanted to get a 20 TB hard drive, but it just didn't work. Why did it quickly become clear when his son screwed the device on.
Fake HDD pretends the PC to be a real hard drive
At first glance, everything seemed to be right. Like Reddit user The_Unflushable, the son of the affected father, explains in a contribution, everything seemed to be fine with the hard drive when the dad connected her to his PC.
Here the good piece was actually recognized as a HDD with 19 TB free memory. Only when the father tried to do anything did the "hard drive" no longer react.
Accordingly, he passed her on to his son, who should search for the mistake. He then screwed up the housing and discovered the nasty surprise: Inside, several iron weights were simply stuck with hot glue. However, there is no trace of the components of a hard drive!
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Obviously, this is not an oversight or an extremely curious production error, but simply a brazen scam. The weights are glued into the shell to emulate the weight of an actual hard drive. Unfortunately, there are similar cases from time to time.
In the comments, the contributor then explains that with a flash memory chip or the like at least chopped firmware must have been installed here-so that a PC falsely recognizes it as a hard drive.
How do you protect yourself from such fraud stitches?
Disappointed, the user does not share exactly where the father had bought the alleged hard drive. You should be particularly careful with private sellers anyway. But cases like the apparently original packed Switch games in theirShow, show that caution is sometimes advised even with seemingly brand new goods.
In any case, it is clear that a short connection to the PC or the weight of a hard drive, graphics card or the like is no longer a safe indication.
If you cannot test the respective equipment in detail on your function, you should be careful in any case. The same applies to suspiciously cheap offers. In the case of unknown online retailers, you should always check the imprint and check for a valid address.
Have you ever gone a lousy fraud? What are your methods to recognize such counterfeits?
