PC Magazine - USA (2020-11)

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he pandemic and ensuing economic fallout may be leading internet

users to dabble in the notorious art of scalping in order to buy up this

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You probably encountered these scalpers in September if you tried to buy

Nvidia’s RTX 3080 graphics card, the Sony PlayStation 5, or the Microsoft Xbox

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And apparently, interest in the scalping profession has been surging since

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Inside the Pandemic’s Biggest

Cash Cow: Scalper Bot Networks

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