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well folks it's finally here unfortunately fake graphics cards are now being sold on sites like Craigslist here's how to spot them so for people who don't live in one of these 70 or so countries in which it's supported Craigslist is an advertisement website similar in concept to say good old gam tree these aren't eBay replacements per se because they're generally localized meaning you'll have to meet in person if you plan to do any due diligence at all the reason why eBay has been so successful among other things is its buyer protection guarantee if you buy a product that doesn't hold up to the sellers claims eBay's got your back most of the time they're the intermediary and ensure that most scams are handled appropriately and they've been doing a decent job at this thus far I mean if they weren't nobody would use eBay right so I bought a fake graphics card just a few months ago and was covered by eBay protection after about a month worth of disputing that's not too long when seen in the context of how many you know disputes happen on a daily basis you can check more out in this video right here but in general eBay has you covered if you buy something on Craigslist and it turns out not to be what you thought it was that's your own fault right that excludes the whole you know false advertising misrepresentation thing that you could probably sue people for but in general you know if it turns out not to work and you had the job right of checking it beforehand before you actually exchanged the cash for the product then that one's on you now I'd like to think total wind up on Twitter for bringing this to my attention we've blurred out any personal info in this ad just to be safe but the title reads NVIDIA GeForce GTX 10 63 gigabyte new GPUs cheap nothing like your daily dose of clickbait right and when you see anything like this particularly on Craigslist one of two things likely crosses your mind either a these are scammers who plan on shipping you the cards once you've actually paid via Western Union or some other sketchy method or B these cards are defective and unless you show up at this random person's house or bring a system with you verifying the integrity of these cards will be next to impossible so you see the catch there but a closer inspection reveals a third possibility these aren't gtx 1060 s at all but how do you know Greg just because we've never seen as a particularly SRAM four to 1060 doesn't mean it's automatically a fake stop being a you know snob well let's start with the sellers description and look for any red flags there are plenty of them by the way and we already know how the title sounds just a little click Beatty and I mean when you see 50 bucks for cards as it usually sell for around three hundred dollars that's got to be one huge red flag right there right so here's how it reads I have twenty gtx 1060 s I never used for a project so it's time for a new haul they were made by a different company but using video boards this is when the ten sixty s were three to four hundred dollars each so I bought these these ones with the cheaper looking shrouds at around half the price I have the boxes and drivers what P's got the CDs okay so does anything at all sound suspicious here let's start with the first line I have twenty gtx 1060 s I never used for a project I mean come on this may be a stretch but it sounds to me like this dude assuming it's a guy planned on doing some serious mining with these cards and was terribly disappointed when he found out they weren't actually ten sixties and in fact he might have done this there's ultimately no way to tell but he does accept cryptocurrency as a form of payment so I'd say it's probably likely he also says that they were made by a different company but doesn't say which and that's because he has absolutely no idea who made these obviously they use Nvidia boards but the boards themselves aren't ten sixty boards I can tell you that straight up and more specifically the GPUs in question aren't GP 106's which is what they should be if they're supposed to be ten sixties one way we can tell is by looking at the rear display connections now conveniently the seller doesn't show a clear shot of the rear but we can line up the same shroud design with this one we found on eBay this is also a scam by the way and it's not a real 10 50 TI so don't get your hopes up this has the same black shroud with blue trim as well as the same fan setup and we can somewhat match the rear connection docks one is clearly a DVI port and the other slightly smaller one unless I'm vastly misinformed is a VGA port so this is what it looks like from the side and I'll tell you straight up that nothing in the gtx 960 department looks anything like this you wouldn't have VGA ports for starters and limiting users to only a single HDMI port without any reference to DisplayPort at all would never make sense on a gtx 1060 since these cards are used frequently for high refresh rate gaming case in point if you see these connections attributed to any gtx 1050 TI or 1060 flag the post and walk away you know click the back button you know what I mean now if you still aren't sold on the fact that these are fake let's try to find identical boards with different GPUs this eBay listing for what's supposed to be a 1050 I list contradicting expects boasting quote ddr5 a four gig buffer and a maximum supported resolution of 2048 by 1044 that's far below true 1050 Ti potential another dead giveaway is the single SLI finger I mean come on they can't even spell correctly and don't let these stickers for you I noticed these later on and they do seem convincing GTX 1060 3 GD 5 192 bit they've even got a barcode which I'm sure scans to a dead end website but other features in this card we've just looked through don't lineup at all but any gtx 1060 on the market and that's why you should stay away if something seems fishy it probably is now judging from the PCB layout it's very likely this card is actually a gtx 550 ti or 650 TI or GTS 450 that closest I could find was this card here but many of the sports components line up to what was depicted in the ad a GPU matching what is likely 783 megahertz in this listing seems to fit the description of the kepler family so from a performance standpoint many of these GPUs perform worse than current model GT 1030 s nowhere close to this fellas advertised claim of a GTX 1060 I even tried texting this seller here with an alias number asking whether or not he knew that the cards he was trying to sell were essentially counterfeits I received no reply unfortunately so do us all a favor next time you find yourself browsing for graphics cards report any of this garbage this may seem like old news to many of us now but I guarantee there are people out there looking for a sweet deal who would buy all 20 from this guy if they had the chance it's why this video exists to point out the red flags and because when something seems too good to be true it usually is so there's my closing statement question everything folks what do you think if this video thumbs up I thought was cool share with your friends those especially who might appear misinformed on the surface and be sure to click that red subscribe button now that really hurt if you want to see more videos like this in the future this is science studio thanks for learning with us