Apple is being ripped off: The United States busts a large-scale counterfeiting gang and buys genuine products and returns them with fake ones

According to foreign media reports on August 1, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security claimed to have dismantled a large-scale cross-state fraud ring. These people were crazy about Apple. The gang is suspected of purchasing Apple products from Target stores across the United States, replacing genuine products with counterfeit products and then returning them to the stores. It is reported that the gang put the counterfeit products into a mold and used a laser engraving machine to engrave them with the "same as genuine" mark. When the gangs return the altered counterfeit products to stores, they receive refunds. Chalvin Tan confessed to his actions. His plan was to mail the stolen products to Hong Kong or sell them via WeChat to a person in California, with the counterfeit products coming from Los Angeles, according to written testimony. But information about counterfeit products and how they are manufactured is unknown.

It is reported that the gang put the counterfeit products into a mold and used a laser engraving machine to engrave them with the "same as genuine" mark. When the gangs return the altered counterfeit products to stores, they receive refunds.

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