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Apple couldn’t tell fake iPhones from real ones, lost $2.5M to scammers | Repair scheme got Apple to replace 6,000 fake iPhones with real ones.
Repair scheme got Apple to replace 6K fake iPhones with real ones.
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 has some measures in place to stop repeated fraudulent returns, Cohen noted, including "rejecting any requests to repair and/or replace a phone from a particular individual or address." Investigators went to great lengths to stop the multimillion-dollar scheme, Cohen said, noting that cops even dug through trash outside the suspects' homes and conducted stakeouts to track when men brought intercepted packages into Apple Stores.
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