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Amazon sold a fake RTX 4090 FrankenGPU cobbled together using a 4080 GPU and board — scam card was found in a returns pallet deal (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Customer purchased Asus Rog 24GB 4090 from amazon but received fake 4080 instead

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

I had this happen to me. Bought a 980ti warehouse deal, came in a 980ti box, plugged it in and it was a 980. Amazon took it back without issue. I'm assuming that I received a fraudulent return, and I'd assume the same thing with this 4090. Especially because this was in a return pallet deal, meaning, you know, it was returned to Amazon. We have no idea what Amazon actually sold in the first place.