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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
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...
Intel has been identifying their chips with "Genuine Intel" for quite some time, that brought the term into the IT zeitgeist.
I think it was cheese nips that had “Real™️ Cheese” on the box where Real is the company name.