We're talking about a scam on the used/second-hand CPU market that seems to primarily affect Intel CPUs. Scammers are rebranding lower-end parts as high-end CPUs, then vanishing after the sale. One of our viewers was scammed out of $500 for a 12900KS, so we bought it off of the viewer to see how the scam worked. This shows tricks both physically and digitally that you can use to verify whether a CPU is counterfeit -- and of course, the physical ones are most important as they can reveal a fake CPU before you even buy it.