[nsp] Switch Fraud

[Martin Robinson]

Hello All,

There are an awful lot of conterfiet Cisco products on the market coming out of china, if you have smartnet or access to CCO, it is always worth running the serial number on the cisco site. It is an issue we face every day as a dealer. Below is the show ver, the system serial number should be the same as printed on the chassis, if not then it is a fake.

This problem doesn't limit it self to the midrange/ desktop switches. We are also seeing fake PA and NM cards and fake low end routers. We actually had fake PA-2FE-TX, arrive the other day, it was made up from a fake mother board grafted onto a shell of PA-4E. We have now publically black listed that dealer.


Base ethernet MAC Address: 00:0A:F4:9C:7A:80
Motherboard assembly number: 73-5526-06
Power supply part number: 34-0967-01
Motherboard serial number: CAT063709K6
Power supply serial number: DCA06341H6Y
Model revision number: C0
Motherboard revision number: A0
Model number: WS-C3550-12G
System serial number: CAT0638Z028
Configuration register is 0x10F

Hope this helps Martin.R.



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-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net]On Behalf Of Stephen J. Wilcox
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 3:31 AM
To: Sam Stickland
Cc: Ryan O'Connell; Cisco Nsp
Subject: Re: [nsp] Switch Fraud


what sort of switch?

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Sam Stickland wrote:

> Have checked back with the client, and it turns out what they are actually
> saying is that the system serial number reported by Sh ver is different from
> the system serial number on the sticker on the back of the chasis and the
> sticker on the box.
> 
> Also the MAC address sticker on the chasis blatently isn't a mac address (or
> if it is it's the first MAC address I've seen that's has H's and V's in
> it!).
> 
> Sam
> 
> Ryan O'Connell wrote:
> > Sam Stickland wrote:
> >
> >> Have anyone ever come across any Cisco switches that have one serial
> >> number reported by 'show version' and a different serial number on
> >> the back of the case?
> >>
> >> A client has just received a shipment of 8 of these, and it seems
> >> quite suspicious.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > This is quite normal, one is the serial number of the motherboard and
> > the other the serial number of the chassis.
> 
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