A very ingenious raw sort of eminent - tech scam has been going down in China , where canny thieves are returning fake iPhone component to Apple and claiming they ’re disclose prescribed parts , receiving literal Apple - made piece in comeback . And making a nice lucre in the procedure .
The cozenage , reported byTechWeb , sees mass involved in the mobile selling industry conduct advantage of Apple ’s faulty goods restoration system . The quoted pillow slip features a retailer who come back 121 fake iPhone 4S internal boards to Apple for successor last twelvemonth . Apple then publish genuine replacements , before get word , a month later , that the returned parts were in fact fakes .
The police got involved , leading to storage locomotive engineer and other stave appendage being accused of working on the bastard cozenage and legion arrests . presumptively they usurp Apple is so copious it ’d just upchuck all the broken bit in a bin and not bother checking . [ Tech in AsiaviaThe Register ]
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