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Amazon customer receives fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D, turns out to be decade-old AMD CPU | It came directly from Amazon and arrived in a sealed box
We've been reporting stories about Amazon customers receiving fake processors since 2017. It still occasionally happens, as discovered by Aris from Hardware Busters. He bought a Ryzen...
Peeling it off revealed that what Amazon had sent was an AMD FX-4100, part of the FX lineup that was launched back in October 2011 at an MSRP of $115. The fact that the packaging was sealed and the CPU was unused suggests that this was not one of those instances in which someone bought an item and replaced it with a fake before sending it back for a refund. There has been a series of stories since 2017 about users who bought Ryzen CPUs from Amazon that turned out to be fakes, scams that many suspected were perpetrated using RMA fraud.
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