The US Department of Justice's Office of Public Affairs has announced (via Ars Technica) that two Chinese citizens have been sentenced for participating in "a scheme to defraud Apple Inc. (Apple) out of millions of dollars worth of iPhones." The really baffling thing, however, is that to a large extent, this scheme worked.
According to the press release, the fraudsters successfully caused "a loss of more than $2.5 million." Of course, sentencing includes some monetary restitution, this being in the form of $1,072,200 from one of the criminals and $397,800 from the other. Which adds up to $1,470,000, more than a million dollars shy of the full restitution needed to make up Apple's losses.
