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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)

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Customer purchased Asus Rog 24GB 4090 from amazon but received fake 4080 instead

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The return items aren’t inspected thoroughly before getting tossed into these pallet auctions. Any open-box return goes straight to them, which enables all kinds of return fraud like this.

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