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
23 Comments
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 311d
Huh, who'd of thought Genuine Leather would branch out into the tech industry.
paper_moon@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 311d
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...
Davel23@fedia.io · 13 pts · 310d
Intel has been identifying their chips with "Genuine Intel" for quite some time, that brought the term into the IT zeitgeist.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 310d
I'm not sure that "AuthenticAMD" is any better. There's probably an entire table of words like this that we should be wary of.
That said, this took me down a small rabbit hole of CPUIDs. I want one with "AMDisbetter!" Or "CyrixInstead"
Reygle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 310d
And it's not even that long ago their CPUs began genuinely committing
seppuku!unalive!uh.. failingbillygoat@catata.fish · 6 pts · 310d
I think it was cheese nips that had “Real™️ Cheese” on the box where Real is the company name.
lemming741@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 310d
https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Real_Seal
The Real Seal appears on products that are made with 100% U.S. cow's milk
billygoat@catata.fish · 1 pts · 309d
I could have sworn that it only needed to be 51%. Can’t find that now…
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 0 pts · 309d
"100% US" will never cease being funny to me, the US is a fucking continent! Imagine if we in europe had "100% european milk!", only place you wouldn't see that seal is like, greece and bulgaria because they might import turkish milk..
Reygle@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 309d
I mean- North America is a continent- and the "U.S." is only a portion of that continent..
potajito@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 310d
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.
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 310d
Uh why would someone steal a rubber chicken?
Reygle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 310d
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
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz · 7 pts · 311d
I have a friend who once brought back an "iPhone" from China for laughs.
Reygle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 311d
Ha, With reskinned Android 4 I presume
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 309d
EyeFone
recklessengagement@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 310d
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
Reygle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 310d
GoDaddy DNS? /Shiver
recklessengagement@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 310d
Yuuuup lol
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 311d
Assembled in Mexico?
Reygle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 311d
Right? I love our neighbors but WHAT
medem@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 310d
Nothing too odd about that. For example, Bose assembles some of its most successful products (such as the Soundlink revolve) in Mexico, regardless of the target market.
Centaur@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 173d
And Blackberry phones was assembled in Mexico or Hungary in Europe.