The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is currently the GPU maker’s most powerful card, as well as its most expensive, and scammers have taken clear advantage of gamers by selling second-hand units of the card at prices way above the SRP. Some take things to another level, either by adulterating the product, as was the case of one poor gamer.
The story goes as such: a gamer in the US went on to Facebook Marketplace looking for an RTX 4090 and found one made by MSI. As you’d expect and as these stories usually go, the card was found to be a non-functioning unit and was later discovered by Northwest Repair that the PCB has been stripped of the GPU core and its memory.
Prior to Northwest Repair, the gamer had initially taken the bunked RTX 4090 to a local PC repair shop, where the shop “determined” that the GPU was fried and offered to purchase the card for US$200 (~RM953). Again, at the time, they were unaware of the card’s nature, and we’re guessing because the gamer thought the shop was trying to short-change him, he rejected the offer.
Look, we all know scammers are always up to no-good and the second-hand GPU marketplace is where these scumbags thrive. We can only hope that the victim was able to obtain some form of retribution against the scammer – the video posted by Northwest Repair shows the face of the scammer, posing on what appears to be a sidewalk – for selling him a bad RTX 4090.
Again, this isn’t the first time folks had been hoodwinked by scammers. Back in 2022, a Brazilian fell victim to an Amazon scammer after receiving a box filled with sand, instead of an RTX 3090 Ti that he paid well above market price.
