SSD Scams

[ameerat42]

I found these articles in another forum and thought to post them here as well.

They are here in OOF, rather then in Technology - H/W and S/W, because it's
the scams I'm referring to, not the drives themselves...

Western Digital:
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/326200-western-digital-caught-bait-and-switching-customers-with-slow-ssds

Samsung:
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/326377-samsung-is-the-latest-ssd-manufacturer-cheating-its-customers

- And somewhere in the mix Crucial is mentioned as well. I suppose they didn't
have enough space to mention every-other-co-and-their-dog :rolleyes:

I recently also heard about a scam involving slower RAM substitution :rolleyes: also.

Feel free to list your scams below...

[kevin301]

Saw a YouTube video on Linus Tech Tips channel, regarding laptop manufacturers using different types of RAM modules that seemed to affect system performance by around 20%. And such a component change wasn't shown on the specs page.

I guess that counts as a scam, since the manufacturers are probably knowingly swapping the components.

[ameerat42]

:nod:efinitely.

A new one that came up on the news the other night was presented as a legitimate
sort of pursuit: you buy into "virtual" muscle cars, typically from the 70s. The "logic"
was that if you can't afford millions on a real and rare one, you could have the "next
best thing" for mere thousands. - And it doesn't stop there :rolleyes:

This is the story (https://www.whichcar.com.au/news/nft-gtho) they were mashing, but a wider search shows lots of other aspects
of reality that are being "non-fungibly tokenised" :rolleyes:

- - - Updated - - -

Yeah, and this:
https://www.hotcars.com/this-is-why-non-fungible-tokens-are-set-to-rival-real-car-collections/

- And you wonder why aliens don't visit :(

[kevin301]

I just can't wrap my head around the concept of Non-Fungible Tokens :Doh:

To think that around 30 to 40 years ago, the concept of a handheld device that could record thousands of high quality images onto a little plastic card would probably have blown peoples' minds :D

Here in Singapore, many people have been falling prey to telephone / SMS scams. The callers will try various ruses, from "your family member is about to be charged by the police." to "your internet connection is hacked"

[ameerat42]

Ha-ha... Ditto. I get up to 3 calls a day some days, threatening arrest or disconnection of the
internet. If I'm at the computer I play them back a message about fraud investigation and call
origin tracing. "They" usually hang up half way through :D

[pommyt]

thank you

[tandeejay]

r/scams on reddit is a good forum to read about current scams doing the rounds. you get a good feel for what to keep an eye out for.

[ameerat42]

^It seems to be that NON-scams are becoming the exception :rolleyes: