Many Reddit users are seeing scams by scammers posing as Amazon sellers. The Pen Drives don't even reach the advertised capacity.
Online commerce allows us to access offers from all over the world without problems, and allows anyone to set up their store. But that allows some scams to sneak into Wish that are discovered when many scammed users discover the actions of those scammers. This has happened with vendors who sold hard drives that were actually just a simple USB pen drive.
[amazon box=»B06W55K9N6″ title=»WD Elements – 2TB Portable External Hard Drive» star_rating=»none» template=»table»]You buy a hard drive on Wish and scammers send you a low-capacity pen-drive
Several Reddit users have been reporting that they bought what appeared to be a cheap multi-TB hard drive, but have found it to be a 32GB pen drive. It is nothing more than a plastic casing with a support that is nowhere near the advertised capacity.
They sensed that the hard drives they bought from Wish and Amazon were a scam when they saw that no more than 32GB of data could fit into them, and that larger files were replacing existing ones. Nor could they make additional partitions, nor could they join those partitions. They sensed that they had been scammed and when they disassembled the hard drive they saw that they were actually being sold a plastic casing that contained concentrated 32 GB pen drives inside.
These scams are common in online stores such as Wish, AliExpress and even Amazon, although the fault is not directly theirs. They are e-commerce portals that are dedicated to listing products from suppliers who want to use the portal and sell them. To avoid this, you have to make sure that you are buying either in official stores, or trusted establishments, and be wary of anything that has an attractively low price.
Source: 20 Minutes
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