The fraudulent Chinese-engineering-student iPhone repair scheme ends in double the restitution for Apple.
A 32-year old Chinese national, Haiteng Wu, has been sentenced to 26 months of prison time by the Department of Justice for running just the next installment of a fraudulent iPhone repair scheme that bilked Apple out of a cool million for the three-year duration of the scam. Not only that, but he and his co-conspirators were sentenced to pay close to $2 million in damages.
After coming from China to study in 2013 and completing his Engineering Master’s Degree in 2015, Haiteng Wu got a real job in the United States and this is when his three-and-a-half-years-long quest to scam Apple's repair service started before it finished with an arrest in December 2019. At one point, however, someone started getting suspicious as this is not the first such case with engineering students from China, and got an alert that something was amiss on a grand scale. It's not clear if the alert came within Apple's vast fraud department, or from the port authorities that have been investigating suspicious bulk iPhone shipments from China but in any case, the scheme started falling apart for the Chinese national on an engineering student visa.
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