Working on a machine that BSOD’d 3-4 times a week, couldn’t find much wrong but then I saw this. An NVME drive from a company named “OEMGenuine”.
Their website 404’s, waybackmachine says it was last cached 2 years ago, and even then it was a broken Godaddy landing page.
Found in a Thinkpad purchased from Amazon, sold by a third-party reseller who “upgrades” the devices before reselling.
Machine seems just fine/stable with a credible drive in it.
What’s the craziest shady “brand” name you’ve seen in the wild?
EDIT: NEW Discovery! One of the ancient waybackmachine cached pages previously redirected to oemgenuine.NET! It’s shoddy as hell but the .net domain is still visible today! oemgenuine.net
Huh, who’d of thought Genuine Leather would branch out into the tech industry.
I love the genuine naming scheme for scams like this. If something is genuine it doesn’t need to be labeled as genuine. You don’t order a “genuine” burger from a restaurant, you don’t buy a “genuine” BMW from a dealership, you don’t get hired by a “genuine” company…
I once had a zune that looked like a zune, used the zune software on windows to load mp3 but it was like 1/5 of the price. It was quite buggy but the og zune also was. I’m convinced it was a knockoff but it didn’t felt bad. I lost it when someone broke into my car and stole it along with a nice jacket and a rubber chicken.
Uh why would someone steal a rubber chicken?
I mean. If a person’s already broken a car window and stolen a zune, and sees a rubber chicken on the seat… wouldn’t you? Hehehe
This reminds me of my last company’s DNS management site, aka “secureserver.net”
Felt like I was getting phished every time I logged in
GoDaddy DNS? /Shiver
Yuuuup lol
I have a friend who once brought back an “iPhone” from China for laughs.
Ha, With reskinned Android 4 I presume
Assembled in Mexico?
Right? I love our neighbors but WHAT
