A Russian friend of mine has posted this absolutely amazing story.
He works at a hard-drive repair center in a Russian town right next to the Chinese border. A couple of days ago a customer has brought a broken 500Gb USB-drive that he had bought in a Chinese store across the river, for an insanely low price. But the drive was not working: if you, say, save a movie onto the drive, playing the saved movie back resulted in replaying just the last 5 minutes of the film.
The whole service center was rolling on the floor laughing. This was not the first time someone has brought a disk like that. And the previous drives were also bought in China... They opened up the drive right in front of the astonished customer. This is what they saw:
It's a 128-MB flash-drive. Working in a "looped" mode - when it runs out of space, it starts overwriting from the beginning. My friend said they're still trying to figure out how did the Chinese do that. Because the drive reports "correct" file sizes and disk-capacity. And the "looped-overwriting" does not touch the other files present on the drive.
The device looks pretty convincing - lots of tech labels and stuff... The Chinese salesman even saved something to the drive to demonstrate that it "works" in the store.
<3 the idea, also hope that this could be my career, not a scamming, but data recovery, although it seems like a very *secret* thing that I can't find anywhere to learn it.
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 6:52 pm
by BuDo
Scamtastic.
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 7:57 pm
by ltsune
That was extremely smart. But what could you expect from the Chinese, lol.
No matter how good you get at something, there's always a Chinese who is better at it!
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:52 pm
by aznronin
Wow, that is really interesting how they did it. I'm Chinese but I feel that what they did was wrong.
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:34 pm
by *BlackFox
Holy shit... that's a pretty smart scam. Well, these scammers will do whatever they can to steal your money!
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:42 pm
by Nick Invaders
While disapprove of scamming, I do have to say that that was very clever.
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:45 pm
by Swindler
Read about it a couple of months back, quite smart.
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:46 pm
by The Invisible
Nick Invaders wrote:While disapprove of scamming, I do have to say that that was very clever.
Wish there was a like button
+1
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 10:08 pm
by Gladiator_RN
Smart chinese boys!
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:43 pm
by MrJoey
K.K wrote:[color=#000080]A Russian friend of mine has posted this absolutely amazing story.
He works at a hard-drive repair center in a Russian town right next to the Chinese border. A couple of days ago a customer has brought a broken 500Gb USB-drive that he had bought in a Chinese store across the river, for an insanely low price. But the drive was not working: if you, say, save a movie onto the drive, playing the saved movie back resulted in replaying just the last 5 minutes of the film.
How To Avoid Scams 101: If it's an "insanely low price" it's a scam.
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:53 pm
by Nick Invaders
The Invisible wrote:
Nick Invaders wrote:While disapprove of scamming, I do have to say that that was very clever.
Wish there was a like button
+1
Just realized I forgot an I after while, oh well xD
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:14 am
by The Invisible
MrJoey wrote:
K.K wrote:[color=#000080]A Russian friend of mine has posted this absolutely amazing story.
He works at a hard-drive repair center in a Russian town right next to the Chinese border. A couple of days ago a customer has brought a broken 500Gb USB-drive that he had bought in a Chinese store across the river, for an insanely low price. But the drive was not working: if you, say, save a movie onto the drive, playing the saved movie back resulted in replaying just the last 5 minutes of the film.
How To Avoid Scams 101: If it's an "insanely low price" it's a scam.
Or someone that doesn't know the real value of an "item" or needs to sell it fast .
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:23 am
by Mirosuke
Fear us!
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:10 am
by CrimsonNuker
I'm Chinese, and I approve.
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 6:08 pm
by omier
MrJoey wrote:How To Avoid Scams 101: If it's an "insanely low price" it's a scam.
They probably thought that someone just forgot to add some 0-s to the price(just like SRO).
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 6:14 pm
by Doron
Wow, orgascam.
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 8:25 pm
by NuclearSilo
Wanna shoot these dicks if I could
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:50 pm
by The Invisible
omier44 wrote:
MrJoey wrote:How To Avoid Scams 101: If it's an "insanely low price" it's a scam.
They probably thought that someone just forgot to add some 0-s to the price(just like SRO).
Lol , true in Sro but i wasn't lucky enough to notice something missing some 0-s like that but i was lucky with some great deals though .
Spoiler!
You know when you ask for an item for a very low price and keep going up a bit by a bit in price but they accept at the first price .
In Isro : Like if you want to buy an item with 20 millions , if you say you will buy 20 millions , you will probably end up paying 25 millions , so i say 10 millions and see his reaction , sometimes they sell it for the 10 millions (on a larger scale) , i got surprised sometimes that they accepted the offer .
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 12:38 am
by MrJoey
What is it with you people always trying to bring sro into these topics.
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 2:34 am
by Amarisa
MrJoey wrote:What is it with you people always trying to bring sro into these topics.
I can't put my finger on it but maybe silkroadforums.com just maybe has something to do with it?
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 7:30 am
by Skyve
Amarisa wrote:
MrJoey wrote:What is it with you people always trying to bring sro into these topics.
I can't put my finger on it but maybe silkroadforums.com just maybe has something to do with it?
Nope what. SRF stands for Social Rule Forums .
P.S: Working on a better name.
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:04 am
by takolin
Amarisa wrote:
MrJoey wrote:What is it with you people always trying to bring sro into these topics.
I can't put my finger on it but maybe silkroadforums.com just maybe has something to do with it?
People still play this horrible game?
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:33 am
by Mirosuke
takolin wrote:
Amarisa wrote:
MrJoey wrote:What is it with you people always trying to bring sro into these topics.
I can't put my finger on it but maybe silkroadforums.com just maybe has something to do with it?
People still play this horrible game?
Hello? if you can post here, it's because people do!
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 2:02 pm
by woutR
I clicked general discussion once and I was like wtf is this shit? Game looks nothing like what I remember, that's probably a good thing, but it all still looked like a retarded game.
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 2:53 pm
by omier
woutR wrote:I clicked general discussion once and I was like wtf is this shit? Game looks nothing like what I remember, that's probably a good thing, but it all still looked like a retarded game.
This is not a good thing. The only thing that is better is that the servers aren't full any more(at least mine). But otherwise the game has been going downhill for years.
Re: A Chinese scam
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:43 pm
by Doron
.Ex wrote:
Amarisa wrote:
MrJoey wrote:What is it with you people always trying to bring sro into these topics.
I can't put my finger on it but maybe silkroadforums.com just maybe has something to do with it?
, i got surprised sometimes that they accepted the offer .
.