Chinese couple living in the US after defrauding US-based tech giant Apple was caught. The couple, who caused the giant company losses of around $2.5 million, were fined $1.5 million. imprisonment was given.

The couple named Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue bought fake iPhones that looked exactly like the original serial numbers they were cloning. So the fake devices really looked like Apple systems. Fraudsters bringing these devices to Apple services they demanded change. Apple also accepted these demands, bought the fake devices and gave them the original ones.

With this fraud method, more than 6,000 fake iPhones have been replaced by original ones

According to documents in the court papers, Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue were killed in this way. More than 6,000 fake iPhonesreplaced with the real thing. The court told Haotian Sun 1 million 72 thousand dollars and Pengfei Xue was sentenced to 54 months in prison with a fine of $397,800.

In the meantime; Apple’s damages were estimated at $2.5 million, and the fraudsters had to pay $1.5 million in damages. It may have confused you.. The court decided to award damages based not on Apple’s damages, but on what the fraudsters had won. ill-gotten gains about certain.