So they're ordinary drives, with a corrupted FAT filesystem. Easy to detect/repair before initial use.
More sophisticated corrupted *firmware* might also exist out there, but I find that rather unlikely and uneconomical for the fraudster.
Tanstaafl (or his source) is using "file allocation table" in the layman's sense of "metadata about the filesystem". The problem with these drives is not in the FAT (obviously), nor the FAT filesystem superblock (which is what whoever wrote "file allocation table" probably meant), nor the partition table.
Peter
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