Counterfeit Kingston USB Flash Drives

Counterfeit flash drives are a huge problem on Aliexpress (and on ebay as well). This is actually the reason for why I discovered that there was a lot of counterfeit products on Aliexpress. Some time ago I ordered what I thought was a no-brand 8gb flash drive(product listing).  I picked that specific drive because I liked that the design was similar to the Kingston DTSE9  flash drive (I didn't realize that it was the same model number at the time). This is what I received.

I immediately thought this was suspicious. The seller had not advertised it as a Kingston drive at all and the images was taken at angels that avoided the Kingston logo.
After a quick search on Google, I discovered that these counterfeit flash drives are often hacked to show a higher capacity than they really have. It tricks the computer in to believing the drive is larger than it actually is, but if you fill it up with more data than the actual capacity, the data will be either lost or corrupted.
To test the flash drive I had received, I used a program called: h2testw. (download link)
Surprisingly the flash drive was actually 8gb as advertised and the write speed was as good as a genuine Kingston drive. The only physical difference I was able to spot was that parts inside the usb connector was yellow and not black and there was also a minor displacement of the text on the side (about 2mm), which was impossible to spot without comparing it to a genuine flash drive.

At the time I did not bother to open a dispute since it was not advertised as a Kingston flash drive, it worked as supposed to and I didn't have that much evidence. 

Some time later I bought another counterfeit Kingston flash drive(product listing). I chose 64gb gold edition this time, well aware that Kingston, according to their official datasheet, only produced 8gb and 16gb versions in gold (DTGE9). This time I received a flash drive with seemed to be a 32gb flash drive (not 64 as I ordered), but it was actually an 8gb flash drive, capacity hacked to show 32gb. 

I opened a dispute and you can read the dispute details and messages between me and the seller below. (messages is shown from bottom to top) 

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As you see in the messages I got quite angry when the seller offered me less than half the price I paid and then asked me to give him five stars, which I think is ridiculous. He later tried to convince me that he is a victim of a bad supplier, but eventually gives me a refund. 

Notice how he tries to lay the responsibility on his supplier and the last message where he tries hard to give me a better impression and ask me not to rate him at all. It is important not to accept the request from the seller to give a good rating, after all he did try to scam me and giving a bad rating is the most efficient way of warning other buyers of these sellers.

As you might guess, I gave him 1 star.