News Amazon flooded with fake $199 AMD Ryzen 9 9800X3D listings — searching for AMD’s top gaming chip yields fake results

[USAFRet]

This is an example of not engaging the brain.
Of course it is a scam.
And here, I would blame the "victim".

Question - Ryzen 5600G at 23$ On AliExpress

The cpu cost's only 23$ should i buy it or this is a scam! 🙂

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[ilukey77]

You have to ask the question..

Anyone with half a brain should know you dont get a $400 cpu for $200 !!

There are scams and there are scams but stupid scams are easy to spot !!

Unless a whole bunch of 9800x3ds fell off a back of a truck!!

But even then would you not sell them at full price being as there so hard to come by !!

 

[80251]

WRT gift cards there have been scams associated w/those as well. In my neck of the woods a person was caught NOT stealing gift cards but putting some back on the racks (i.e. compromised ones). Apparently the scam works by opening the gift card package, pre-registering it (with the hidden gift card number), covering up the gift card number again, then putting it back on the rack. When someone buys the compromised gift card and puts money on it, the money is siphoned off from the gift card even before it's given. When the scammer in question had his car and residence searched, hundreds more gift cards were found. It was determined the scammer in question was part of a ring that specialized in this kind of scam.

 

[80251]

You have to ask the question..

Anyone with half a brain should know you dont get a $400 cpu for $200 !!

There are scams and there are scams but stupid scams are easy to spot !!

Unless a whole bunch of 9800x3ds fell off a back of a truck!!

But even then would you not sell them at full price being as there so hard to come by !!

I remember when the Pentium Pro first came out I was in a mom&pop, brick&mortar computer store (back when there were hundreds of such stores in practically every strip mall) and a sketchy guy came in w/a Pentium Pro in his hand offering to sell it for cash. I figured if it wasn't stolen it was probably non-functional and it could probably even be both. The mom&pop computers store operator told the guy to get out of his store.

 

[Vookta]

in canada i ordered a motherboard and received a motherboard box with packing popcorn only on the inside. i got my money back as i reported it right away and had no issues.
So how does these scam work for Amazon getting their money back... won't they go after the sellers if everyone returns a fake cpu they bought? But if the sellers were fake to begin with and had quick bank accounts, wouldn't they have already taken the money and ran? Makes me think amazon is on the hook for these. Especially when it is "shipped by amazon and returns good until jan.."