Counterfeit DDR5 RAM is circulating across online storefronts and gray-market retailers, and some fake modules are convincing enough to pass visual inspection — until you cut them open. According to Digital Trends, the chips installed on the fraudulent sticks aren’t memory at all, but merely fiberglass boards shaped to resemble legitimate DRAM. SEE ALSO: The RAM shortage driving up tech prices won’t end any time soon, Micron says The issue was reported by a Japanese X user who purchased what appeared to be a genuine SK Hynix SO-DIMM laptop module and physically dissected it after becoming suspicious. Inside, they found non-functional fiberglass pieces where the memory chips should have been. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. “At first glance, they look like regular memory sticks, but the chips actually installed on them are just bare circuit boards—plastic boards. I removed them and cut them open to check,” reads a translation of the X post. Some of these counterfeits are reportedly being sold openly on auction platforms like Yahoo …