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2 Maryland residents attempted to steal 5,000 iPhones with fraud scheme, jury finds

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Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue, both Chinese nationals that were residing in Germantown, Maryland, were charged with mail fraud. The two 33-year-olds received shipments of inauthentic iPhones from Hong Kong at mailboxes throughout the D.C. area. They could face up to 20 years in prison.

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2 Maryland residents attempted to steal 5,000 iPhones with fraud scheme, jury finds

Two Maryland residents were found guilty of trying to defraud Apple out of millions of dollars with fake iPhones from China on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue, both Chinese nationals that were residing in Germantown, Maryland, were charged with mail fraud in a U.S. District Court after trying to exchange counterfeit phones for real iPhones from Apple retail stories and service providers, accordin…

2 months ago·Washington, United States

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