The first photos is the fake and the second is a real card (image taken from the Samsung website). A few things to take note of:
- Paint chipping off & poor quality
- Original is written "EVO PLUS" while the fake is "EVO +"
- In the U, there is a number. On the original it has the number 3 while the fake has the number 1
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Now, when we look at the actual circuitry under the paint on the bottom side of the card, we can also see a clear difference between the two cards. The first image is the fake card, while the second is an image of a real card taken from Arvika Data Recovery's web database. With some rare exceptions, Samsung uses the same layout on all their microSD cards.
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To add insult to injury, this fake card has, at best, 8GB of storage which is very short of the 128GB promised. When the 8GB capacity is hit, bad things happen. Either the card will go completely unreasponsive, it may just fail to actually write any new data or it could cycle back and start writing back at the front of the card, overwriting data that is already there. The outcome really depends on how much effort the scammers put into their work.