Amaya Toman In the spring of this year, we will feature you in one of our articles informed about two young people of Chinese nationality who earned extra money by scamming iPhones to study in the United States. The criminal activity of this pair of students consisted of fraud using the iPhone trade-in program. One of the perpetrators, now 30-year-old Quan Jiang, was sentenced this week to thirty-seven months in federal prison followed by three years of probation.
The accused couple obtained dozens of non-functioning counterfeit iPhones from Hong Kong, which they exchanged for new phones in the United States as part of warranty service, either directly from Apple or from one of the authorized service providers. The perpetrators then returned the real iPhones to China for further resale, and Jiang's mother deposited the money from this activity into his Chinese bank account. In total, more than 2 iPhones were involved in 000 fraudulent claims, with which the pair caused Apple an estimated $3 in damage. The mentioned criminal activity was committed by the pair from January 900 to February last year.
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Law enforcement authorities became aware of Jiang's criminal activities in April 2017, when customs officers seized twenty-eight iPhone 6s, addressed to Jiang, who was currently studying. Six months later, twenty-five iPhone 7 Plus were confiscated. In November of the following year, three more shipments containing twenty-nine iPhones were seized. Jiang, who received warning letters from both Apple and customs during his trial, initially denied this, but later admitted that he knew the iPhones being shipped were counterfeit. No details are yet known about the amount and form of punishment for Jiang's accomplices.
Source: Coin
