Scammers are getting very desperate or very clever. This time, the victim was a South Korean overclocker who got swindled with a fake Intel Core i9-14900K.
The overclocker, Safedisk, reportedly purchased a non-retail packaged 14900K from a Chinese 'dealer', which was practically 'dead on arrival'. While it's likely they purchased the chip out of morbid curiosity, the overclocker told HKEPC that there were signs of a scam. For starters, it arrived in a blister pack with a sticker that the warranty would be void if said pack was broken. Again, not off to a good start.
Where a massive monolithic piece of silicon is supposed to sit, Safedisk was greeted with a vacant PCB. It stings, we know, and as Tom's Hardware puts it: we don't think this is the silicon lottery the overclocker was hoping for the 14900K to be a part of. This isn't the first time scammers have taken advantage of unknowing victims in the world of PCs. Last week, we reported on a gamer who purchased a hollowed-out NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, with the PCB lacking the critical GPU core and surrounding memory chips.
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