The least "Genuine" hardware I've ever seen and it's named "GenuineOEM" (lemmy.world)

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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

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[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Huh, who'd of thought Genuine Leather would branch out into the tech industry.

[-] paper_moon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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 1 points 3 months ago

Intel has been identifying their chips with "Genuine Intel" for quite some time, that brought the term into the IT zeitgeist.

[-] billygoat@catata.fish 1 points 3 months ago

I think it was cheese nips that had “Real™️ Cheese” on the box where Real is the company name.

[-] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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 1 points 3 months ago

GoDaddy DNS? /Shiver

[-] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

I have a friend who once brought back an "iPhone" from China for laughs.

[-] Reygle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Ha, With reskinned Android 4 I presume

[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Assembled in Mexico?

[-] medem@lemmy.wtf 2 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Reygle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Right? I love our neighbors but WHAT

[-] potajito@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago

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 1 points 3 months ago

Uh why would someone steal a rubber chicken?

[-] Reygle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

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

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