Students’ iPhone fraud apparently takes Apple for $900K

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Apple was apparently fooled out of more than 1,000 iPhones.


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A set of Chinese engineering trainees studying in Oregon apparently scammed Apple out of numerous countless dollars, a report stated.

Yangyang Zhou and Quan Jiang are implicated of bringing countless fake iPhones into the United States from Hong Kong as a part of a fraud that began in April 2017, as formerly reported by The Oregonian.

They apparently send out the phonies to Apple, grumbling that they would not switch on, and getting fresh, genuine iPhones in return under the business’s service warranty system. Those authentic gadgets were then sent out abroad and cost numerous dollars, with Jiang and Zhou getting a cut of the earnings, according to court files.

Those files keep in mind that 1,493 of the 3,069 service warranty declares netted a replacement iPhone, and Apple approximated that it lost $895,800 as an outcome.

The set remained in the United States on trainee visas, district attorneys kept in mind. Zhou, who went to Oregon State University, apparently delivered the phonies into the United States and sent the replacements they got.

Jiang, a Linn Benton Community College trainee, apparently handled Apple, by looking for the replacements either face to face or online. When the genuine iPhones were sent out to China, an associate paid Jiang’s mom, who then sent out the cash to his account.

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They were apparently rumbled when customs officers seized suspicious shipments bearing the Apple logo, the documents noted. The Cupertino, California, company sent Jiang cease-and-desist letters after he was identified as one of the alleged smugglers by December 2017, but the letters were ignored.

Zhou is accused of submitting false export declarations, while Jiang is accused of trafficking in counterfeit goods and of wire fraud, our sister site ZDNet noted.

Apple didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

First published at 3:42 a.m. PT.
Updated at 4:15 a.m. PT: Adds more detail.

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