{"id":3261,"date":"2026-03-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiki-living.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/ssd-scams-are-getting-more-and-more-sophisticated-heres-how-to-avoid-falling-prey-to-scammers\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:04:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:04:42","slug":"ssd-scams-are-getting-more-and-more-sophisticated-heres-how-to-avoid-falling-prey-to-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiki-living.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/ssd-scams-are-getting-more-and-more-sophisticated-heres-how-to-avoid-falling-prey-to-scammers\/","title":{"rendered":"SSD scams are getting more and more sophisticated – here’s how to avoid falling prey to scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The fake Samsung 990 Pro SSD was found to be very convincing<\/strong><\/li>\n
It looked authentic, reported decent volume, and even performed like the real 990 Pro in some benchmarks.<\/strong><\/li>\n
However, a full suite of tests has revealed vulnerabilities in the drive – and there are steps you can take to protect yourself<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
Fake SSD and RAM scams are becoming more and more common as these products are already very expensive, but most of the time it is easy to spot these scams \u2014 though not with the latest Samsung imitation drive.<\/p>\n
There’s no obvious fake packaging or product labels, or other obvious offers here, and as Japanese tech site Akiba PC Hotline found out (via Tom’s Hardware), you might not realize that this Samsung 990 Pro SSD was a fake clone at all. As Akiba puts it: “Fake SSDs have become more advanced,” while warning that these fakes, “hard to distinguish from the real ones, are now flooding the market” (remember that this is a translation).<\/p>\n