#Analysis
Online Detective
(9 Apr) A news article forwarded by a friend (https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/04/07/beware-of-defective-wrongly-manufactured-ir-thermometers/) said that people from Thailand found a faulty IR thermometer that could read ~36Ā°C even when the sensor is removed. I searched for the brand name āHEACOā from the video, and found that HKTV used to sell other thermometers of the same brand, but they are now off the shelves. This thermometer ācaseā seemed to be manufactured in different factories, and there are at least three brands with the same ācaseā on HKTVās website.
There isnāt much information on the company HEACO, but I found a Facebook page with the same logo. It appears to be a Russian company. Although I donāt have any proof that the HEACO thermometer in the video is a fake, nor do I know if HEACO sells counterfeit products, it is worth pursuing. Why are there three companies using the same case for thermometers? Does the thermometer work normally under standard conditions?
So I searched for G SIM STORE, the shop that sells other HEACO thermometers on HKTV, and found that it is related to a Youtube channel (both profile pictures are the letter G made from dots). The channelās videos are all on sim card sales, and there is a web link to HKTV in the introduction. It seems like medical products are not the primary products of this company.
Other than that, there are two other companies on HKTV that sell thermometers of the same ācaseā. I also searched for these companiesā brand and shop name. One of the shops is called āYing Kang Medicineā. According to Facebook, their shop is in Tsuen Wan, and the brand of the thermometers they sell is called āBo Huiā. However, I couldnāt find any information about the brand on Google. Thatās all Iāve found.
The other shop is called āXCSourceā, and I found out that it is a foreign company with an official website. However, thermometer is not one of the products on their official website. I searched for the companyās name and the word āthermometerā as keywords on Amazon, and there were no related products. At this point, I suspect that this companyās trademark was stolen and used to sell thermometers of unknown sources on HKTV.
Details could be found on the photo attached.
Oh, wasnāt there a Chinese businessman who talked about exporting fake thermometers so America would have more infected cases?
Source: Facebook
#HEACO #Thermometer #YingKangMedicine #XCSource #Fake
Online Detective
(9 Apr) A news article forwarded by a friend (https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/04/07/beware-of-defective-wrongly-manufactured-ir-thermometers/) said that people from Thailand found a faulty IR thermometer that could read ~36Ā°C even when the sensor is removed. I searched for the brand name āHEACOā from the video, and found that HKTV used to sell other thermometers of the same brand, but they are now off the shelves. This thermometer ācaseā seemed to be manufactured in different factories, and there are at least three brands with the same ācaseā on HKTVās website.
There isnāt much information on the company HEACO, but I found a Facebook page with the same logo. It appears to be a Russian company. Although I donāt have any proof that the HEACO thermometer in the video is a fake, nor do I know if HEACO sells counterfeit products, it is worth pursuing. Why are there three companies using the same case for thermometers? Does the thermometer work normally under standard conditions?
So I searched for G SIM STORE, the shop that sells other HEACO thermometers on HKTV, and found that it is related to a Youtube channel (both profile pictures are the letter G made from dots). The channelās videos are all on sim card sales, and there is a web link to HKTV in the introduction. It seems like medical products are not the primary products of this company.
Other than that, there are two other companies on HKTV that sell thermometers of the same ācaseā. I also searched for these companiesā brand and shop name. One of the shops is called āYing Kang Medicineā. According to Facebook, their shop is in Tsuen Wan, and the brand of the thermometers they sell is called āBo Huiā. However, I couldnāt find any information about the brand on Google. Thatās all Iāve found.
The other shop is called āXCSourceā, and I found out that it is a foreign company with an official website. However, thermometer is not one of the products on their official website. I searched for the companyās name and the word āthermometerā as keywords on Amazon, and there were no related products. At this point, I suspect that this companyās trademark was stolen and used to sell thermometers of unknown sources on HKTV.
Details could be found on the photo attached.
Oh, wasnāt there a Chinese businessman who talked about exporting fake thermometers so America would have more infected cases?
Source: Facebook
#HEACO #Thermometer #YingKangMedicine #XCSource #Fake