14 indicted over $6 million counterfeit iPhone and iPad scheme in CA.
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It`s the biggest fraud of its kind in the Southern District of California! What you need to know 14 people have been indicted over a $6 million counterfeit iPhone scheme. The indictment was unsealed on November 13 by the U.S Attorney`s Office in the Southern District of California. It is alleged that the group shipped 10,000 counterfeit iPhones and iPads to the United States, exchanging them for real phones in Apple stores across the country. The U.S. Attorney`s Office for the Southern District of California has indicted 14 alleged members of an international criminal organization. The group is charged with importing more than 10,000 counterfeit iPhones and iPads from China in a scheme thought to have cost Apple more than $6 million. According to the DoJ website, 11 search warrants were executed on two businesses and several residential properties, as well as vehicles, in the early hours of Wednesday, November 13. $250,000 in cash was seized along with 90 iPhones, the authentic...