Overview
- The video shared Thursday shows a Moscow customer opening a factory‑style boxed Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 Ti at a Wildberries pickup point and finding a two‑liter plastic water bottle instead of the graphics card.
- Footage captures a Wildberries employee handing over the package and the buyer showing intact serial labels and shrink wrap before unboxing, which undercuts claims the purchaser swapped the item himself.
- Hardware outlet i2HARD and reporting note scammers can remove a card and reapply protective film or heat‑shrink the box so a returned package looks factory‑sealed, with a heavy object used to mimic weight.
- There is no confirmed public update that Wildberries has refunded the buyer or traced where the swap happened, and the filmed unboxing is being cited as the key evidence the customer can use in a dispute.
- High retail prices for modern GPUs raise incentives for this fraud and a recent related Wildberries case involving an RTX 5080 required prosecutors to overturn police inaction before a full refund was issued on July 21.