Two college students allegedly cheated nearly $ 1 million of Apple

Two Chinese students currently studying engineering at a number of universities in Oregon, USA, have recently been accused of behind a fraudulent deal with a total value of nearly 1 million. Dollars through Apple's iPhone replacement and return campaign. According to The Oregonia's first report, both are now at high risk of facing criminal charges in federal courts. The authorities accused the students of working together to plan and successfully implement a complicated scam to take away nearly $ 1 million in cash from the Cupertino giant using fake iPhone products. , build and take advantage of vulnerabilities in Apple's product return policy.

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Beginning in 2017, these two males with this misplaced desire to plan to smuggle thousands of fake iPhones from their homeland in China, and then send them to Apple to demand the right company. Repair or change your new device on the grounds that these 'iPhones' cannot turn on the power or suffer from many other 'unpleasant unpleasant' errors. In many cases, Apple has replaced counterfeit iPhone, the estimated total damage can reach $ 895,800.

Hundreds of 'iPhones' cannot turn on the power

Of the two newly arrested students, Yangyang Zhou, who just completed an engineering degree at Oregon State University, is said to be the main responsible for bringing hundreds of fake iPhone lots into the US and sending real goods to China. National illegally. His colleague Quan Jiang, who is studying engineering at Linn Benton Community College (also in Oregon), shared an address with Zhou and will send a fake iPhone to an online service center. Apple, or directly to the company's warranty headquarters to request replacement to the new iPhone.

'After real iPhones were sent to China to make a profit, another partner would be tasked to transfer money to Jiang's mother, and she would then deposit money into a bank account that Jiang was using. in the US ', police representative explained.

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According to complaints filed in federal courts, both Jiang and Zhou claimed that they were completely unaware of the phones sent from China as counterfeit goods. Both are currently bailed, but are subject to strict surveillance from the police. Currently, Zhou is accused of exporting illegal goods, while Jiang faces charges of illegally selling counterfeit goods and committing organized scams that have serious consequences.

An employee of the US Homeland Security Agent explained in complaints that this seemingly 'funny' and extremely simple plan could succeed and cause damage. so big mainly because Apple Store staff were unable, or incompetent, to verify the authenticity of the fake iPhone devices used in the mission because they could not turn on the power, and the Apple phone replacement process was activated during that time, because two Chinese men claimed they were entitled to product warranty benefits. Besides the lack of product validation, it is impossible not to mention some of the 'deadly' gaps in Apple's product warranty and return policy. Clearly, the company did not ask for proof of purchase before approving the product renewal request, which was exploited completely by Jiang and Zhou.

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The Apple claims the scammer knows smuggled iPhones from China are 'fake'.

Jiang allegedly sent a total of 3,069 warranty claims in return and as a result, Apple gave him 1,493 replacement iPhones, with an initial estimate of $ 600 per phone. Thus, at first glance, Apple has lost nearly 900,000 dollars from this program. During the period from June to July 2017, Apple sent Jiang's 'dead' iPhones to Zhou's listed address, informing Jiang that Apple had a grasp of the fact that he was importing fake iPhones, However, Jiang did not respond to any announcements from this manufacturer.

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In fact, this is not a fraudulent act of taking advantage of a warranty policy that causes great losses in general and foreigners in particular for US technology companies. Last year, a Chinese citizen who lived in New Jersey state on a student visa also guilty of selling fake iPhones and iPads to many customers in the United States, pocketing all 1.1 million dollars - some money is not small at all. . And just last month, a Lithuanian man was accused of cheating on two giant tech companies, Google and Facebook, for nearly $ 100 million, by sending it to Google and Facebook fake invoices via email and pretended to be employees of a Taiwanese hardware manufacturing company called Quanta Computer, currently a partner of the two software vendors.