Amazon sold a fake RTX 4090 FrankenGPU cobbled together using a 4080 GPU and board — scam card was found in a returns pallet deal
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=PCc2Ug2dXmY
Customer purchased Asus Rog 24GB 4090 from amazon but received fake 4080 instead
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My guess is someone at amazon swapped it and kept or sold the real gpu
If you've never seen an Amazon, FedEx, or UPS facility, you know this is just not likely. They are more secure than prisons. You're not allowed any personal belongings going through to the staging areas, they have metal detectors and multiwave scanners like airports.
Not only that, some items are in fucking literal jails, whole fenced rooms that requiere individual identificación to get in. Last I worked there, it was for expensive but small items with high risk of internal thieving, but with the price of this cards I believe they might apply
https://youtu.be/gOHy-LjhSxw this video shows how employees get caught. It's not a smart idea when there are cameras everywhere.
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