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Apple couldn’t tell fake iPhones from real ones, lost $2.5M to scammers
Together with their co-conspirators, the 34-year-old scammers, Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue, squeezed Apple for about $2.5 million, as employees for years failed to detect what the DOJ described as a rather "sophisticated" scheme between 2017 and 2019.
Apple loses RM10.55m to scammers: repair scheme had them replacing fake iPhones with real replacements
They then submitted the fake iPhones, with spoofed serial numbers and/or IMEI numbers, to Apple retail stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers, including the Apple Store
Counterfeit iPhone scam lands pair in prison for ripping off $2.5 million from Apple
Hoatian Sun and Pengfei Xue are on their way to prison after the Justice Department said their iPhone repair scheme cost the tech giant millions in losses.
2 Chinese men living in U.S. sentenced for defrauding Apple with fake iPhones
The Justice Department said Thursday two Chinese men who tried to defraud Apple, Inc. have been sentenced for trying to defraud Apple out of millions of dollars worth of iPhones.
Scammers in the slammer for years after ripping off Apple with fake iPhone returns
Haotian Sun, 34, a Chinese citizen living in Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced to 57 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $1,072,200 in restitution to Apple plus a forfeiture money judgment of $53,610.
Apple loses $2,500,000 after being ripped off by iPhone scam
Two people have been sent to prison over a scam which reportedly cost tech giant Apple some $2.5 million. Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue ran a scam posing as a repair shop that sent counterfeit phones to the business.
Jail sentence for scammers who fooled Apple into replacing fake iPhones with new ones
The tech giant suffered a loss of more than $2.5 million as a result of the scam, that unfolded in the United States.
2 men tried to use 6,000 fake iPhones to scam Apple service providers across DC
The pair submitted counterfeit iPhones to Apple for repair as a way to get Apple to exchange them for genuine replacements.
Multimillion dollar fraudsters jailed over fake iPhone scam
Two individuals who conned Apple into replacing fake faulty iPhones with real ones, have been sentenced to years in prison.
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Duo That Cost Apple $2.5 Million in Fraudulent iPhone Repair Scheme Get Prison Sentences
Two Maryland residents who defrauded Apple out of 6,000 iPhones worth over $2.5 million were sentenced to prison today, ...
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DOJ sentences pair for Apple repair scheme involving 6,000 knockoff iPhones
The U.S. Department of Justice Thursday announced that it has sentenced a pair of Chinese citizens residing in Maryland ...
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Chinese Man Ordered to Pay $1 Million to Apple for Counterfeit iPhone Scheme
The court also sentences
Haotian
Sun
and his co-conspirator to more than four years in prison for carrying out the scheme, which involved over 6,000 counterfeit iPhones.
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