Amazon shoppers should be wary of fake but positively-reviewed portable hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs) selling on its marketplace. Review Geek recently found several 16TB portable HDDs and SSDs from unfamiliar brands on Amazon selling for around $100 (R1,700) or less.
This is not new at all, but the bigger risk is that these scammers also move out into other online sales platforms.
For example, there has long been a similar scam selling fake phones that are labelled and look just like Samsung phones. If you are at all suspicious of that bargain price, rather give it a pass.
See https://mybroadband.co.za/news/hardware/476837-beware-fake-hard-drives-sold-online.html
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