Duo face 20 years in prison over counterfeit iPhone scam
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U.S. authorities convicted Maryland residents Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue for mail fraud and conspiracy after they submitted more than 5,000 counterfeit iPhones with spoofed serials/IMEIs to Apple between 2017 and 2019 to obtain genuine replacements, aiming to cause over $3 million in losses. The counterfeit devices were imported from Hong Kong and routed via UPS mailboxes to Apple stores and authorized resellers; both defendants were arrested in December 2019 and face up to 20 years each, with sentencing set for June 21.
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