Counterfeit iPhone scam lands pair in prison for ripping off $2.5 million from Apple [USA TODAY]
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Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue exploited Apple's iPhone repair process by sending more than 6,000 counterfeit phones to the manufacturer that couldn't be repaired, in order to induce the company to replace the counterfeits with genuine iPhones, federal prosecutors said this week. Sun and Xue were each sentenced to at least four years in prison. The phones used in the scheme came from Hong Kong with spoofed serial and International Mobile Equipment Identity numbers to appear authentic to Apple employees and were on the products, Postal Inspector Stephen Cohen said in court records. Sun and Xue used DHL and UPS to retrieve the phones from Hong Kong. Cohen wrote. He added that an Apple Brand Integrity Investigator caught on to the scheme after finding the fake devices' unique numbers belonged to real customers. "Apple confirmed that some intercepted phones contained spoofed IMEI and serial numbers associated with other existing iPhones that were in-warranty at the time of the returns
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