Two fraudsters who managed to buy original smartphones worth $ 3 million from Apple by sending fake devices for “repair” were caught and are facing heavy penalties.
In the USA, two people declared to be Chinese citizens sent their documents to Apple by mail. for repair they sent fake iPhones He managed to buy real iPhones worth millions of dollars. The fraudsters who were eventually exposed and caught are now facing 20 years in prison.
Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue These two people, named, sent the fake iPhones they brought from Hong Kong to the iPhone service with various frauds. Replacement of faulty phones original Apple iPhones they took it. In this process, the two men changed the serial numbers of the devices and sent different devices with different identities, making a huge profit by sending a total of approximately 5000 devices for repair so far. In this process, the duo’s Apple 3 million dollars It is estimated that it caused as much damage as
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Wanting to cover their tracks, the duo also used postal addresses or postal addresses that did not belong to them. fake addresses It is stated that he used . This action is also defined as a crime under US law. Assistant United States Attorney Kondi J. Kleinman, who led the investigation, and Court Prosecutor Ryan Dickey, after explaining the crimes these two men committed and the method they followed, asked for a 20-year prison sentence for them.
Previously, two brothers named Zhimin and Zhiting Lao in San Diego were accused of a similar fraud. 41 months in prison to his punishment He was sentenced to death. It was revealed that the Lao brothers were selling original iPhones in other countries.
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