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The story
A thread starter who posted “I’ll give away my gaming PC for free” suddenly began demanding a ¥10,000 Amazon gift card from anyone who wanted to claim it. Fellow posters piled on with comments like “that’s a scam” and “someone should report this,” and when the poster tried to explain it away as “just a drill,” it only drew more ridicule.
What people said
If you want it shipped, you'll have to cover the postage yourself 🙏
Where are you located?
Thanks!
It's the one with an RTX 5090
This is obviously a scam, however you look at it 🥺
Scam alert! Scam alert!
Whoever wants to take it, please send a ¥10,000 Amazon gift card here first
[email protected]
I'll pay it right back to you, of course
Forget that, just hurry up and post the pickup location
That's a crime, dude
It's free
The Amazon gift card is just a deposit
It's a common thing to do
A deposit for what, exactly, lol
Please explain what kind of "deposit" that's even supposed to be
I'll come pick it up, so just tell me the location
Claim there's a "handling fee" and demand money
Someone should really report this
Anyone who fell for it, be more careful next time
LOL there he is
You're done, buddy
https://www.internethotline.jp/reports6/
Same here, used this one too
Guess I'll drop this URL here too
Where Re: #1 gets cocky and everyone turns into "I'm reporting you!"
Glad this turned into a fun thread
Wait, is this you talking to yourself (sockpuppeting)?
What are you even using it for?
What "crime" is that supposed to be, idiot
Attempted fraud, obviously
http://hissi.org/read.php/livegalileo/20260821/RmFrb01pTzkw.html?thread=all
Posting on the board is literally his job, must be a "white" (non-exploitative) workplace with actual lunch breaks
i7 860
GTX960 OC
16GB
256GB SSD
It's an absolute monster machine
Looks like it'd fetch about ¥10,000 on Mercari
A monster in a certain sense, sure
LOL that's worse than my old PC
If it's one of those "paid giveaway" events, yeah it's sketchy
Just think of it as a garbage event designed to reel in people who don't know better
That's an event where they dump certified garbage on you
How is it a "giveaway" when it's actually paid? 🤔
mb, sth glitchd out, sry
Background and Key Points
5ch (formerly 2channel) is Japan’s largest anonymous forum, and “Nanji Jikkyou” (なんJ) is one of its busiest sports/variety subforums, known for fast-moving joke threads that can turn serious in seconds. The GPU in question, an RTX 5090, is Nvidia’s current flagship card, retailing well above ¥300,000 in Japan — so a “free” giveaway suddenly gated behind a ¥10,000 Amazon gift card is instantly recognizable to Japanese readers as the classic small-deposit-before-the-big-payout script used in phone and SNS fraud. The board link posters dropped, internethotline.jp, is not a joke; it’s Japan’s real Internet Hotline Center, a body commissioned by the National Police Agency to field reports of exactly this kind of solicitation.
The thread didn’t split over whether gift-card-first requests are shady — everyone agreed on that. The actual disagreement was over motive: some treated OP as a garden-variety scammer to be reported, while others (after OP claimed it was “just a drill”) suspected the whole thing was a bait/troll post, with one user even accusing OP of replying to himself using multiple IDs to keep the ridicule going.
What outside readers likely miss is the “ID” checking culture on 5ch: each post carries a per-thread ID, and sites like hissi.org let anyone pull up every post that ID made that day, which is exactly how the sockpuppet accusation got made — a built-in, community-run anti-spam mechanism unique to this kind of board culture.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nanji Jikkyou) thread “I don’t need my gaming PC anymore, is anyone willing to take it off my hands?“.
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