Not sure if Graphics Cards is the right bit of the forum for this, but as the tomshardware.com forums have given me so much over the years I thought I'd give something back...
Fraudsters are either setting up Amazon marketplace stores or hijacking existing stores then listing products at significant discounts to list prices with text like "We cannot deliver to all areas. Please email us at info[at]ddd484.com to see if we can deliver to you." in some aspect of the listing. An unsuspecting customer will order and then be contacted by the "seller" to suggest alternate methods of payment when it becomes apparent that the transaction won't work on Amazon. Some more info in the links below...
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/01/12/amazon-scammers-hijack-seller-accounts/
https://wirednot.wordpress.com/2015/05/01/the-curious-case-of-bogus-amazon-sellers/
I attempted to purchase a Zotac AMP Extreme GTX 1080 for c.£430 today as I was under the impression that they'd just accidentally priced a 1080 as 1070. The giveaway was that when I purchased the card earlier in the day there were maybe 80 listings on the Marketplace store, however when I returned later to see if they'd sold out of cards at this mad price, the storefront was now listing over 250 pages of products, mostly relating to high end electronics...and all at deeply discounted prices.
Naturally I'd never agree to a transaction away from Amazon/via some third party, however if I'd not gone back later to see if anyone had bought the cards I probably wouldn't have noticed the crazy number of SKUs placed on the storefront and become suspicious. A GTX 1080 at £430 is REALLY cheap, but not beyond possibility. I did come to my senses when I saw an Nvidia Quadro P6000 going for £600 though ;-)
If it sounds too good to be true it probably is! Hope this helps someone out there.
Fraudsters are either setting up Amazon marketplace stores or hijacking existing stores then listing products at significant discounts to list prices with text like "We cannot deliver to all areas. Please email us at info[at]ddd484.com to see if we can deliver to you." in some aspect of the listing. An unsuspecting customer will order and then be contacted by the "seller" to suggest alternate methods of payment when it becomes apparent that the transaction won't work on Amazon. Some more info in the links below...
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/01/12/amazon-scammers-hijack-seller-accounts/
https://wirednot.wordpress.com/2015/05/01/the-curious-case-of-bogus-amazon-sellers/
I attempted to purchase a Zotac AMP Extreme GTX 1080 for c.£430 today as I was under the impression that they'd just accidentally priced a 1080 as 1070. The giveaway was that when I purchased the card earlier in the day there were maybe 80 listings on the Marketplace store, however when I returned later to see if they'd sold out of cards at this mad price, the storefront was now listing over 250 pages of products, mostly relating to high end electronics...and all at deeply discounted prices.
Naturally I'd never agree to a transaction away from Amazon/via some third party, however if I'd not gone back later to see if anyone had bought the cards I probably wouldn't have noticed the crazy number of SKUs placed on the storefront and become suspicious. A GTX 1080 at £430 is REALLY cheap, but not beyond possibility. I did come to my senses when I saw an Nvidia Quadro P6000 going for £600 though ;-)
If it sounds too good to be true it probably is! Hope this helps someone out there.
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