How did we get to this point? 🚨
Many people already know that it has been expensive lately, and the overall picture of the market has become as familiar as the mining era, where screen cards, prices, lack, buy, and finally become the target of cheats, which today are walking on the same path, stolen, swapped, and most recently "stuffed."
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This story comes from a user named BravoNorris who ordered four 16GB XPG Caster DDR5-6000 CL40 rams from Amazon Spain. The product was shipped from Ireland. Some of the first boxes were normal, some were normal, but the problem happened when the third box was opened. The package was still sealed. It looked like everything new.
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Only when it opened, the DDR5 ram immediately became the old DDR or DDR2 ram, which was modified to cover the new-looking Jpg heat sink and put the old ram in it to look like the real thing. The box also had a steel plate to weigh the box to look realistic. The ram was put on a sticker imitating the DDR5 label. If you look through the box, you may not know that it has been shuffled.
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This case is noted to be cheating through the return system or Return Fraud, which is how people buy the real thing first and put the fake back in the box and ask for a refund with the store. Then a store that sees that the package is still sealed may think it is new and resold without checking it. As a result, the fake is sold in a "new" state, and the store itself is not aware that it has been replaced.
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This is a clear sign that Ram is no longer as common as before, when DDR5 became expensive for Rare, but the high demand for gaming, servers, and AI crooks began to come to the market.
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Source: VideoCardz
