German scammer dupes two different buyers into spending thousands on hollow RTX 5090 GPUs — stripped-out cards netted fraudster $5,000 despite being worthless
Reports from der8auer and Hardwareluxx detail two buyers who paid roughly $2,090 and $2,613 for stripped Palit RTX 5090 cards. Fake invoices and mismatched serial numbers were used, and the incidents highlight the risk of buying GPUs second-hand.
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