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发信人: TomsnReuters (汤生撸透射), 信区: Military
标 题: 尼玛，俄勒冈小黄人这下长脸了，讹了果果一百万刀
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Apr 4 22:00:14 2019, 美东)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/04/04/feds-bust-900000-iphone-repair-
return-scam-in-oregon
Feds bust $900,000 iPhone repair & return scam in Oregon
By William Gallagher
Thursday, April 04, 2019, 05:09 am PT (08:09 am ET)
Two engineering students in Oregon are accused of bringing thousands of
counterfeit iPhones to Apple and having them replaced with real ones that
they then shipped to China for sale.
Apple's Bridgeport Village Store, Oregon. Some of the alleged fraud was
perpetuated online but others involved visits to Oregon's three Apple Stores
Apple's Bridgeport Village Store, Oregon. Some of the alleged fraud was
perpetuated online but others involved visits to Oregon's three Apple Stores
Students Yangyang Zhou and Quan Jiang, both Chinese nationals studying in
Oregon, are accused of getting Apple to replace their counterfeit iPhones
with real ones. Each iPhone was replaced under Apple's repair policies and
the thousands of phones were then sent to China where they were sold. Apple
reportedly estimates the cost of the fraud to be $895,800.
Zhou made his first court appearance at the US District Court in Portland on
Friday where federal investigators from Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
claimed that he and Jiang had received multiple shipments of counterfeit
iPhones from China.
Boxes of fake iPhones found at suspects' homes. Source: US Attorney's Office
via KION
Boxes of fake iPhones found at suspects' homes. Source: US Attorney's Office
via KION
An Apple representative explained to the court how the fraud worked.
"Submission of an iPhone that will not power on is critical to perpetuating
iPhone warranty fraud," said the representative, "As the phone will not be
able to be immediately examined or repaired by Apple technicians, triggering
the Apple phone replacement process as part of its product warranty."
According to court records as reported by The Oregonian newspaper, Apple
received more than 3,000 warranty claims from Jiang and in 1,493 cases
replaced his phone.
Customs and Border Protection officials began investigating in April 2017
after having seized five or more shipments of phones. In December 2017,
Homeland Security interviewed Jiang who admitted regularly receiving 20 to
30 "iPhones" from China.
At the time of the alleged fraud, Zhou and Jiang were both living in
Corvallis, Oregon, and were on student visas to study engineering. Jiang was
studying at Linn Benton Community College and Zhou at Oregon State
University.
Apple reportedly sent Jiang a cease-and-desist letter in both June and July
2017 while CBP also wrote in April and October to tell him that counterfeit
phones addressed to him had been seized. Jiang denies receiving any of these
letters or being told that what he was doing was illegal.
Jiang's defense lawyer has so far declined to comment but Zhou's told
Portland's KOIN that his client is innocent. "Mr Zhou was not aware of any
alleged counterfeiting," he said, " and we believe Mr Zhou will be
vindicated."
Apple has yet to comment publicly on this case but reportedly it has been
working to combat similar fraud cases for at least the last six years. |
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