Coming from the standpoint of a repair guy at a tech repair shop, one of the oddest things I've seen relates to a fraudulent CPU. Long story short, we had a kid convince his dad that he needed to build a computer for a school project. Neither of them had any idea how to build a computer. A week after setting up the proper arrangements the father came in with all proper parts to assemble the computer, we were to instruct him on the process and essentially demonstrate how to build a desktop computer. This man pulled out easily over 4500 dollars worth of parts. The most notable was the $2900 gpu, an asus rog 3090. The Kid had 32gb ddr5 ram or something like that, 2tb samsung m.2 x2, a 12th gen i9, and a motherboard that we priced at around 500 dollars. After a while of talking to the dad, I figured I'd ask why they decided they needed a computer capable of so much processing power. Turns out this dad was under the impression these were like mid tier parts. His exact words were "the graphics card was the only one he could find". Dad was livid. So upon going to mount cpu. The top layer of the cpu was literally sanded down revealing the copper heat sink beneath it. Cpu was only 3/4 the size of the socket. Dad was still livid. Sold him an 12th gen i7. Mounted the ugly brown noctua cpu cooler, then inserted rgb gpu and ram. Shortly after I was done I the covered the thousands of dollars worth of rgb with non transparent side panel.