Report of a 16TB external SSD being sold on Amazon that turns out to be a scam
Given the large sales that are expected on the imminent Black Friday, warnings from security firms about possible online scams are popping up. Today the alarms have gone off when Digital Trends has warned that Amazon has a 16 TB external SSD for sale, something that is impossible today and turns out to be a scam.
The " 16TB portable external SSD hard drive " from Sajiulas is a storage product that, for tech enthusiasts, seems almost unbelievable. But it's worth remembering that scams target the least knowledgeable or the most unsuspecting. This external SSD is currently Amazon's number one new product in the external solid-state drive category.
An external SSD that does not meet its characteristics triumphs at Amazon
Simply put, it claims to be a 16TB SSD external hard drive in the shape of a Samsung T5 drive, with a sticker price of $109,99. Since it's sold by Amazon, it comes with free tech support and can be returned until January 31, 2023, giving the customer some time to figure out that it's not actually a 16TB SSD.
To have a benchmark of a real product, an external SSD from Samsung, the 7TB T2 Shield; it sells for $149,99. When something sounds too good to be true, it's probably a scam and said Sajiulas 16TB SSD is the result of something leaked on Amazon.
Digital Trends also reports on a 5TB " portable external hard drive " from an obscure company called WIOTA, which resembles Sajiulas's product and is the number one new addition to the external hard drive category. Both products have received positive reviews and claim read and write speeds of 500 Mbps and 450 Mbps, respectively.
A closer look at the reviews reveals that many of the ones with 5 stars are for different products, so they would have used reviews from different products so it doesn't look like they are sending out identical reviews en masse thanks to bots.
Amazon recently revealed that it had seized more than 240.000 items in China in an operation, bringing the total number of items seized and disposed of to more than XNUMX million. It is a sample of Amazon's intentions to avoid fake products in its marketplace. But it is inevitable that something will go wrong. Despite this, there remain loopholes in Amazon's anti-counterfeiting system that allow operators like Sajiulas and Wiota to sell fake products to unsuspecting customers.
Source: Digital Trends
