Some of the bogus Apple (AAPL) hardware recovered by Los Angeles Port Police. Estimated street value: $10 million.
“This was a well-funded operation, and the counterfeits looked very authentic,” chief Ron Boyd told the
L.A. Times
. Buyers might not have discovered they’d been bilked, he said, until they got home and tried to hook the devices up with iTunes.
Also on Fortune.com:
- Inside Beijing’s iPhone black market
- Holiday crime spree targets Apple
- Smash n’ Grab: 23 MacBooks, 14 iPhones, 9 iPod touches, 31 seconds
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