In China, Beisner’s brazen thieves stole graphic cards worth over $7,000 in an internet café. The thieves took advantage of the owner’s goodwill and made off with 6 high-end graphic cards along with the motherboards.
What happened? The ongoing shortage of semiconductors and thus also of expensive graphic cards continues to make headlines. The latest story from this area happened in Hangzhou, China.
There, one of the alleged perpetrators came into an internet café and asked if he could rent the shop for himself and his buddy. They claimed they wanted to play games in peace. Such internet cafés have always been popular in China because they have high-performance PCs that many Chinese people cannot afford privately.
So the owner thought nothing of it and agreed to the request. He didn’t notice that the ID presented to him was likely a forgery.
Thieves distract owner and steal graphic cards along with motherboards
How were the graphic cards stolen? The two alleged thieves later asked the owner for additional garbage bags. The owner still suspected nothing and went to get new garbage bags.
The villains had been waiting for this, because as soon as the owner was busy with the garbage, the thieves unscrewed six gaming PCs, took out the graphic cards along with the motherboards, and fled quickly.
When the owner returned, he only saw the sad, gutted remains of his gaming PCs in the room, with no sign of the boards, the expensive graphic cards, or the two thieves. Since expensive graphic cards are currently in high demand, the thieves are likely to make a good profit from them. Recently, over $15 million worth of graphic cards were sold by scalpers on eBay.
By the way, this is not the first case of its kind, as in December 2020, brazen thieves stole 40 boxes of RTX 3090 cards directly from the factory!
Have the thieves been found? He could only call the police, but since the ID presented was forged and the perpetrators wore face masks due to the pandemic the whole time, they could not be identified. So far, every trace of them seems to be missing.
The damage, according to the owner, is estimated at 50,000 Yuan, which is approximately $7,812. In euros, it amounts to around €6,421.
A similarly brazen case of coveted gaming hardware recently occurred in Japan. There, a brazen woman sold a customer a PlayStation 5, but the package only contained bottles of water. However, in this case, the police were able to identify the perpetrator and hold her accountable. Read the full story here on MeinMMO. Enjoy!
