A federal jury discovered two Chinese language males dwelling in Maryland responsible Tuesday in a pretend iPhone fraud scheme. They tried to defraud Apple in a $3 million scheme to exchange pretend iPhones with actual ones, the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace for the District of Columbia mentioned.
Haotian Solar and Pengfei Xue’s mail fraud convictions carry a most sentence of 20 years in jail.
Pair discovered responsible in pretend iPhone fraud scheme price $3 million
In one other iPhone fraud scheme, a federal jury in U.S. District Courtroom within the District of Columbia discovered Solar and Xue, each 33 years previous, responsible of mail fraud in addition to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, a crew led by U.S. Legal professional Matthew M. Graves mentioned.
The crimes, described as a “refined scheme,” concerned 5,000 pretend iPhones from Hong Kong submitted for restore at licensed places within the Washington, D.C., space in an try to get real replacements price a complete of about $3 million.
Right here’s how the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace described what went down:
In response to the federal government’s proof, between Might 2017 and September 2019, Solar, Xue and different conspirators defrauded Apple Inc. by submitting counterfeit iPhones to Apple for restore to get Apple to alternate them with real substitute iPhones. Solar and Xue obtained shipments of inauthentic iPhones from Hong Kong at UPS mailboxes all through the D.C. Metropolitan space.
They then submitted the pretend iPhones, with spoofed serial numbers and/or IMEI numbers, to Apple retail shops and Apple Licensed Service Suppliers, together with the Apple Retailer in Georgetown. Trial proof confirmed that conspirators submitted greater than 5,000 inauthentic telephones to Apple in the course of the conspiracy, aspiring to trigger a lack of greater than $3 million to Apple.
Solar and Xue, who used varied aliases within the pretend iPhone fraud scheme, have been arrested on December 5, 2019 after the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and Homeland Safety Investigations seemed into the matter.
As for the doable 20 years within the slammer, U.S. District Courtroom Choose Timothy J. Kelly scheduled sentencing for June 21, 2024.
Supply: U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace, District of Columbia
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