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From the pictures below, supplied by Vincent, you can see that someone did a fairly good job of hiding the obviousness of what was being traded off as a genuine Intel processor.

I followed your earlier links and found one that had lots of pictures. Unfortunately, I can't find it now. But, someone went to a lot of trouble to create a fake box.

There was even an apparent seal, until you peeled back the seal and saw that the Intel logo that should be on the tape was printed on the box.

The cooling fan that you see in the window on the box was actually a picture of a fan, attached to the top of a plastic mold of a fan assembly.

However, Newegg isn't doing themselves any favors by claiming these were "demo" units that were mistakenly shipped. Perhaps they were told this by the distributor, which I think would indict the distributor as participants in the scam.