On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice stated that two Chinese citizens residing in Maryland were sentenced for a scheme involving 6,000 knockoff iPhones to scam Apple
Officials say that the plan involved sending more than 6,000 fake iPhones from Hong Kong to Apple to be fixed. The two people got a real phone as a replacement with the help of counterfeit IMEI and serial numbers.
The U.S. Department of Justice says that Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue ultimately cost Apple over $2.5 million. The guys were given prison terms of 57 and 54 months, respectively. Apple told Xue to pay them almost $400,000 in reparations, while Sun was said to pay more than $1 million.