Two individuals who conned Apple into replacing fake faulty iPhones with real ones, have been sentenced to years in prison.
Apple Georgetown was one of the stores targeted by the scam
Apple Georgetown was one of the stores targeted by the scam
Almost five years after they were arrested in December 2019, Maryland residents Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue, have been sentenced to 57 months and 54 months jail time respectively. The sentence follows their grand jury conviction in February 2024, where their scheme was detailed over more than three days of testimony.
According to Justice.gov, between May 2017 and September 2019, the pair and other unnamed conspirators repeatedly defrauded Apple. In each of more than 6,000 cases, fake iPhones would be received from Hong Kong, and then sent on to various UPS mailboxes in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area.