However, online shopping is also a haven for sketchy third-party sellers to scam unsuspecting buyers. As our sister site, Tom’s Hardware reports, a “too good to be true” 30TB M.2 mini SSD for $39 deal at Walmart (opens in new tab) (now removed) underlines this hard truth. Cybersecurity Researcher, @RayRedacted bought the same Samsung SSD knockoff from wholesale site AliExpress to expose the scam in a Twitter thread. In this scam, you think you’re getting a whopping 30TB of storage, when in reality, you’re getting flat-out deceived. “Scammer gets two 512MB Flash drives. Or 1 gigabyte, or whatever. They then add hacked firmware that makes it misreport its size,” @RayRedacted explains in a tweet. Be sure to check out our back to school hub for real deals on high capacity storage and other essentials.
