The first product is DDR4 RAM memories in SO-DIMM format which mimics the Kingston FURY Impact. It is striking how well the counterfeit of this product is done. Although there are two main aspects that give it away: the sticker is smaller and the brand name does not appear (Kingston) nowhere. More subtle is the design of the PCB, if you look at the right side you will see that in the fake there are resistors which do not appear in the model on the right.
Note that the one we classified as fake is the brand’s first design. There are still images on the net with an equally narrow sticker, but the Kinston brand appears.
You may have doubts, but whoever downloaded this product is an awkward. They took the official pictures of Kingston and had the audacity to erase the Kingston mark with Paint. You can clearly see it in these comparison images. Note that the image on the top left is exactly the same as the image on the right that I clipped from Kingston’s official site.
I will leave you the AliExpress page as well as the Kingston official page so you can check the information and buy it yourself. Attention, we are not saying that this is a bad product, it can work well, but it is clearly an attempt to deceive the user.
Samsung SSD, pure surrealism
In fact, there are very few false Kingston memories compared to attempts to counterfeit Samsung’s M.2 SSDs. there is literally dozens of M.2 SSDs equal to the sale they are trying to imitate samsung products. I’ve chosen four different ones, but I’ll leave out one because it’s the most surreal of them all.
The first three chosen are more or less similar. These are all M.2 drives that sneakily copy Samsung products. if we go to Samsung official websitewe have the units SSD 980, SSD 970 EVO Plus and SSD 980 PRO, only these three models. But here we have a model (okay, three) called “980 EVO” which does not correspond to anything. Moreover, it seems that only SATA drivesbut the units of Samsung are all PCIe 3.0 and PCIe 4.0.
Of course, here they sought to create a denomination similar to the official denomination, but different. This allows a clueless user who doesn’t know much to buy the fake unit.
The counterfeiting process is so extremely shabby, that they took images from Samsung’s official website and uploaded them without further ado. We can see below these lines two images of these products. The one on the left belongs to “980 PRO” and you can see the SSD image where in the controller, DRAM memory and NAND memories with the name of Samsung. While the image on the right is also you can see that the picture also belongs to the unit “980 PRO” but they have erased the samsung of the unit. There are other cut and pasted images from Samsung’s official site where the “980 PRO” also appears, indicating that the images are stolen.
The scarecrow at the highest level
It can be seen that the level of counterfeit “perfection”to call it somehow fell But the next case, for us, is the ultimate madness. Apparently we enter an official product, we see images of real Samsung SSDs, the typical marketing ones. But, there is something that catches our attention.
Typically, you segment by manufacturer when uploading a product. If I’m going to sell SSDs from Samsung, Corsair, Kingston, and Western Digital (hereafter WD), I’ll create four different sales pages for each brand. But here we find mixed Samsung and WD products, it’s strange, but good.
By hovering over the thumbnails in the upper left, everything seems to be fine. Until the mouse hovers over the images of the WD SSDs and something strange is seen. are units WD Black SN850which are of fairly good quality, but something is wrong: he erased part of the name with Photoshop (and wrong, by the way)
You can see in the image above how much difference there is between the two units. He Clearing work is obviousThey took images from marketing or a store and faked them. They have erased the mark and the “B” from the “Black” already executed.
Of course, this crummy action makes us think that this seller’s Samsung units aren’t real either. If you want to take a look, this is the page in question.
This also happens with ADATA XPG
Given the latest case involving WD, we thought of looking for other manufacturers. We have Found with ADATA XPG case, a little known brand in Europe, but which has a lot of fame abroad, especially in the United States and Asia. There’s a lot to comment on here.
The first thing that caught our attention is the name of the unit. One page sells it as XPG GAMMIX S11 y the other page like XPG GAMMIX S11 Lite. Our job is to go to the official XPG website (by the way, name of ADATA’s gaming division) and search. In the official website, we only found the GAMMIX S11 Pro
But there is a very important detail, the The GAMMIX S11 Pro has a passive heatsink. All of the images we’ve seen on Google of the unit have a passive heatsink. This is important because the images on both AliExpress pages are displayed without a heatsink.
We compared and the one that is sold as XPG GAMMIX S11 Lite on AliExpress is really the SX6000 Pro unit. At least the unit, product and performance images belong to this product.
The biggest problem lies with AliExpress’s XPG GAMMIX unit. After reviewing XPG drives, no match in design. We watch the controllerbeing all of XPG square layoutwhile this one has a rectangular design. So we can say that it is a false unit, at least, compared to official information.
conclusion
These are just a few cases, there are surely others. Of most concern are those from Samsung and Kingston, which are clearly counterfeit products. But, it’s very old, there will always be someone who tries to take advantage of the loopholes of the platforms.
A few years ago, Amazon started strictly pursuing fake product reviews to improve its positioning. This led to many users and brands being kicked out. A process that had not been done before for economic reasons, since it was interesting to grow at all costs.
Maybe AliExpress is at the same point, they keep these fake products for now. It is predictable that at some point they will clean up the store, leaving only legal products or non-deceptive products. When will this happen? Well, it’s impossible to know.
In the meantime, all that remains is to take a close look at the product you want to buy and ask Saint Google. We must check, first of all, if the characteristics of the product correspond to the original. Also check the price on other websites, because if there are large price variations, the product is probably not real.
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