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Foxconn's Wisconsin presence 'a bunch of empty buildings,' far behind targets
Foxconn has a long and illustrious history of announcing local investments, receiving up front money from excited and often stupid local politicians and then walking away with the money. It's another form of revenue stream for them.
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Feds bust $900,000 iPhone repair & return scam in Oregon
Yes. The air is injected in the cavity between the black outer covering, and the metalised internal battery cover. It's not injected into the battery cells/chemicals as such. It was always easy to spot as a real expanded battery is rock hard, while the injected one was pliable and could easily be deflated again with a pin-prick. I have seen literally hundreds of this particular scam.1st said:
Are you sure? inject air into battery (not N2?) will cause Li ion battery to explode. not just swelling... interesting Apple couldnot track SN - defeated whole purpose of SN. Apple phone is sealed, it is easy to put some indicator that seal was broken (like the moisture indicator - expose to water and turn red... could be as easy as back door pop up - discounnect antenna of wifi or NFC will send a signal to network as warning for example - or even just store in memory that can be retrived via NFC... sure apple genius can think about something to provent such event before it got out of the hands - like near 1 million we are talking about here... something fishy here... can't wait for the whole story come out).Ecky-Thump said:One common practice is as follows.
iPhones are purchased using stolen credit cards. These phones now need to be laundered.
The phone is opened up and air is injected into the battery between the black covering and the battery internals, giving it the appearance of an expanded battery.
It is then taken into an Apple store. Phones with expanded batteries are not opened by techs for safety reasons, so the phone is replaced and the customer now has a fully working phone with a clean serial number.
The damaged phones have always been purchased in a different country, so the SN is not on any local police database. The person bringing the phone in is always Chinese.
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Feds bust $900,000 iPhone repair & return scam in Oregon
12 years an Apple Genius. Seen it all.maestro64 said:
sounds like you have lots of experience with this...Ecky-Thump said:One common practice is as follows.
iPhones are purchased using stolen credit cards. These phones now need to be laundered.
The phone is opened up and air is injected into the battery between the black covering and the battery internals, giving it the appearance of an expanded battery.
It is then taken into an Apple store. Phones with expanded batteries are not opened by techs for safety reasons, so the phone is replaced and the customer now has a fully working phone with a clean serial number.
The damaged phones have always been purchased in a different country, so the SN is not on any local police database. The person bringing the phone in is always Chinese. -
Feds bust $900,000 iPhone repair & return scam in Oregon
One common practice is as follows.
iPhones are purchased using stolen credit cards. These phones now need to be laundered.
The phone is opened up and air is injected into the battery between the black covering and the battery internals, giving it the appearance of an expanded battery.
It is then taken into an Apple store. Phones with expanded batteries are not opened by techs for safety reasons, so the phone is replaced and the customer now has a fully working phone with a clean serial number.
The damaged phones have always been purchased in a different country, so the SN is not on any local police database. The person bringing the phone in is always Chinese. -
Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts to depart in April, hands mantle to Deirdre O'Brien
Paid obscene amounts of money to add a bit of fashion to the stores. Still not as bad as John Browett, paid obscene amounts of money to make every retail employees working life a nightmare. I've never worked somewhere, where seeing employees in tears was a weekly experience. Thank's John you jerk.
