Fake mobile chargers can be deadly, here’s how to identify them

How do you know that the original-like charger of your smartphone is not fake? And, it’s not making any harm to your smartphone?

While brands like Apple and OnePlus provide their proprietary chargers, there are several manufacturers who sell fake ones which are build for cheap.

Not only these phony units infuse problems in your smartphones such as low performance, slow charging and reduced device life, they may also conclude being fatal for

you. Reports have been emerging about smartphones getting blasted during charging, killing their owners. For instance, an old man and daughter were recently killed due to

their continuously charging smartphone getting exploded.

None of us want such incidents to happen and in order avoid any mishap due to a fake charger, here are the ways to check if yours is original from brands such as Samsung, Apple.

In order to check if your Apple charger is original, there are two things which differentiate them — the ‘Designed by Apple in California’ lettering and the dark Apple logo.

On fake chargers, the logo color may be faint or the aforementioned lettering may be absent.

Similar to Apple, even the original Samsung chargers might be tough to identify. However, if your charger is counterfeit, the adapter will bear the words ‘A+’ and ‘Made in China’ on it.