You’re Getting Scammed By….Amazon?

Amazon seems to be a place where scammers come flocking to sell falsely advertised products. Last time we took a look at power banks and found out that they were completely lying about their advertised capacities. This time we decided to test out USBs and see if we had a similar result. Let's just say, you'll be shocked by what we found. Be safe out there...

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[djsnackcakes]

Just for context. At 5:50 the drive displayed may be a clone of device called a rubber ducky (which the image shown for a few frame is). While not super common, they are a real threat to your computers since they can be used to open backdoors, script viruses, etc (they are basically just a digital keyboard that can type super fast). But these aren't the only issue. While that device doesn't look like a USB killer or a normal keystroke injector, there is still the very real possibility that the USB controller (what gives standard information data like storage capacity, model, etc) could have been rewritten to not only change the read size, but could also contain malicious data (like a keystroke injector but a little more limited)

If anyone wants to try anything like this, get a cheap computer and physically disconnect it's modem or install a different OS on it like Debian. This seems like overkill but if it can't connect to the internet and if the virus written can't be read by the OS by default, it improves your odds at staying safe.
And if you do feel like you have been infected. Run an antivirus check (doesn't matter what brand as long as you trust it. And if that doesn't suit you; try transcript or something else on GitHub)

But in best practice
Don't plug random USB drives you find laying around or use fishy products

[CubeBag]

Thank you for bringing more visibility to this Amazon scam. In my opinion, the worst part of the scam is that if someone uses the USB drive like normal and writes more data than the true capacity, it will start overwriting data that has already been written, causing permanent data loss. It's heartbreaking seeing reviews of these fake USB drives and SD cards where someone tried to use it to store important data, like for a wedding photo shoot, only for it to disappear, and they don't find out until it's too late.

[Sr_iRL]

This is a great video for those people that think “I can get this one with more storage for less”
I usually just go to my nearest Best Buy store and get SD cards, USB drives when they are on sale. I got a 5 TB external hard drive at Best Buy which was a good investment. Stay safe out there and in the digital world.

[Whizify]

Great videos as always. Please make more COMPANIES ARE LYING TO videos.

[bhaktibhandari]

After many such experiences (mines and others'), my sole goal is to go for popular, reputed, well known brands ONLY whenever shopping online or offline.

[Nyandano]

Him saying he needs to use multiple computers to to increase efficiency is a well hidden flex

[dualkeyboards]

I love that he's a phone repair guy, but his phone is broken 😂

[haggielady]

I like these longer videos. Especially this one. I'm now going to stick with SanDisk. They have always been my first choice.

[razial]

Wow this needs to be raised, who much scams have they made so far

[honktm]

Another risk you can encounter when plugging an unknown USB drive into your computer. USB killers are devices that look USB sticks but are actually full of capacitors, which charge from the power source on the port and then send an electric pulse through your motherboard an will most certainly destroy your computer.

I have no idea why anyone would ever do something like this, but some people are willing to do anything to ruin another person day.

[Togynar]

I got so scared in the beginning when I spotted the Sandisk one. I got this one for my birthday and I know it was kinda expensive. I got so relieved when you said it was legit. I would feel so bad for my dad who bought it for me, if it was actually fake, like I already felt bad he spend so much money on me + if he would have got scammed, it would break my heart.

[AnimeFanLifex]

This is why I just by my ssd's and hard drives from just a tech store or just your local best buy lol 😆

[chezikmusic]

This is one of the biggest issues on the Amazon platform and it’s frustrating cause the company doesn’t seem to be doing much about it.

[Dienowxw]

You know what you should do? Go get a lawyer and sue them ALL on small claims court for $10, 000, for false advertising

You'll make fat stacks, and scare companies into being honest all at once

[thermer]

You can definitely sue Amazon with this new information

[random_person]

1:24 What you could do here is to activate ReadyBoost if your computer would allow to, then copy the large ReadyBoost cache files to fill up the storage.

[heavylemons]

Please keep exposing these filthy scammers

[nerdiguy]

There is also a scam in which they code in the pendrive deletes your previous content when you reach its actually capacity to make you think that it has actually a high amount of storage

[ismail_umair]

Props to you for putting the hardworking in to record the time lapses for us too 👏

[josephlopez]

Not all of the usb companies are lying because San disk is a credible company to buy on Amazon anyway good video.