[TriEmbed] Beware Chinese knockoffs !!

[Mauricio Tavares]

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Scott Hall via TriEmbed
<triembed at triembed.org> wrote:
> I came across this ad from GearBest today.  Normally I have received OK
> products from GearBest, knowing that they are a Chinese company with little
> or no regulations on their products.  If you stick with known products
> marked as from Chinese companies, like their Arduino clones, you can save a
> buck or two while being aware that about 20% to 25% will reach you as bad.
>
> Well this ad takes the cake.  Advertized is a Samsung product.  But look
> closely at the pictures; they didn't even steal a graphic from Samsung but
> pictured their own product.  Note that the stripe and the text are not crisp
> but fuzzy or had bad masking.  I have a couple of real Samsung EVO's here in
> front of me and they are crisp and slightly different.
>
> Samsung EVO Ultra Micro SDXC UHS-3 Professional Memory Card - $28.49 Free
> Shipping|GearBest.com
> https://www.gearbest.com/memory-cards/pp_651509.html?wid=1433363&utm_source=mail_api&utm_medium=mail&utm_campaign=GB_computer_180512_1526118549&eo=AbWeDEW2cPA3CmmOPaSzRhGdR6s
>
> The forums for this one suggests that you won't get 64GB out of a card, but
> more likely 16GB before things start getting corrupted.  It was surmized
> that 16GB clones were used, and that the upper address lines were missing,
> and the reporting SD/XD ID has been reset to report a larger capacity.
>
      What? No built-in spyware?

> Buy beware!!
>
> - sgh
>
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