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Fraudsters imprisoned for scamming Apple out of 6,000 iPhones

Two Chinese nationals were sentenced to prison for scamming Apple out of more than $2.5 million after exchanging over 6,000 counterfeit iPhones for authentic ones. Between July 2017 and December 2019, Haotian Sun, Pengfei Xue, and their co-conspirators, Wen Jin Gao and Dian Luo, exploited Apple’s device replacement policy to replace non-functioning fake iPhones for genuine devices. Their goal was…