RMA Fraud on Amazon Targeting AMD Ryzen Buyers

[Kenrou]

https://www.techpowerup.com/235238/rma-fraud-on-amazon-targeting-amd-ryzen-buyers

TLDR: "The RMA fraud appears to consist of a scheme in which an unknown party has been buying up quantities of Ryzen 7 or 5 series CPUs, and RMAing them back to Amazon with a fake CPU inside. The fake CPU appears to be an older Intel-based LGA packaged model, ironically."

 

[Woomack]

Reminds me days of Athlon XP and Athlon 64. Also P4 were "relabeled". On the other hand it's not easy to make it look good.

 

[Kenrou]

The Kaveri were also a problem 2 years ago on Amazon.

 

[EarthDog]

We popped a news article a few years ago on the newegg thing...
http://www.overclockers.com/mysterious-fake-processors-surface/

I bet this is low volume...

 

[Kenrou]

Can you imagine a "sweat-shop" of people delidding and RMA'ing these things

 

[Nebulous]

Can you imagine a "sweat-shop" of people delidding and RMA'ing these things

Good one!

 

[Mag10]

So dont buy ryzen from Amazon... Check
lol