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Two Oregon college students accused of swindling Apple out of $900G in iPhones
Chi-Comms at it again!
Two Oregon college students have been accused of tricking Apple into giving them nearly $900,000 worth of iPhones, which they then allegedly sent back to China to be sold for profit.
Yangyang Zhou and Quan Jiang were both in the United States legally in 2017, while studying engineering at Oregon State University and Linn Benton Community College, when the scam allegedly began. According to documents, the men recieved shipments of counterfeit iPhones from "an associate" in China, which they would then submit to Apple for a warranty replacement by claiming that the phones wouldn't turn on.
Apple replaced about half of the phones Jiang submitted claims on, returning 1,493 phones in 2017 and 2018, Oregon Live reports. Jiang then allegedly sent them back to his "associate" to be sold at their real value in China. Money profiting from the scheme was then filtered to Jiang's mother, who put the funds into a bank account he could access from the United States.