Fraudsters tried to scam Apple out of 5,000 iPhones worth over $3 million
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Two Chinese nationals, Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue, were convicted of mail fraud for a 2017–2019 scheme submitting over 5,000 counterfeit iPhones—with spoofed IMEIs and serial numbers—to Apple’s warranty and replacement channels to obtain genuine devices worth more than $3 million, which were then shipped to Hong Kong for resale; they face up to 20 years in prison, with sentencing scheduled for June 21, 2024.
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