Fraudsters faked out Apple with bogus iPhones in $2.5M repair scam

Ars Technica
By Ashley BelangerOct 4, 2024, 3:45 pm796 ptsTrending
Two men involved in an elaborate scheme duping Apple into replacing about 6,000 counterfeit iPhones with genuine iPhones were sentenced to prison this week, the US Department of Justice announced Thursday. Together with their co-conspirators, the 34-year-old scammers, Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue, squeezed…

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