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For anyone trying to spot counterfeit products in general, a good place to look is at the FCC logo. On the counterfeit card in the article the FCC logo is wrong
by Doxin 7y ago
For anyone trying to spot counterfeit products in general, a good place to look is at the FCC logo. On the counterfeit card in the article the FCC logo is wrong. The real logo ends with two concentric circles with a pie-slice out of them forming the "cc" while the counterfeit logo clearly has a different shape.
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- neilv 7y agoA different article, linked by the HN post one, shows much better quality screen-printing logos on a counterfeit card than on the counterfeit in the immediate article: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/comparison-intel-i350-t4-genuine-vs-fake.6917/ https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/comparison... Though I can't see an FCC logo in the different article's photos. (I also can't see an FCC logo on the different model of supposedly-Intel quad-gigabit PCIe card of mine I just looked at.)
- Doxin 7y agoIt's a general quick way to check, it'll not always work. A bodged FCC logo means it's almost certainly a counterfeit. A proper or missing FCC logo means near nothing. I just noticed the bodged FCC logo in the original article, that's all. sometimes you can spot similar shenanigans based on the CE logo but that's more rare.
- neilv 7y agoThanks. Sometimes, with counterfeits of various kinds of electronics products, I've wondered whether there was ever an intentional telltale indicator. So that country or other entity never accidentally got a counterfeit into a supply chain where they really didn't want it to be. (For example, not into the parts supply chain of a high-profile device manufactured there. Nor to ruin domestic markets for prestige luxury brand products, or other products for domestic consumption for which quality/integrity is considered very important.)