A man from Sacramento, USA, managed to steal products Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), worth 350.000 dollars before being caught by the American authorities. We are talking about a scam that spread nationally in the US, the man using fake credit cards to trick Apple employees and get a lot of products.
The scam worked like this: the man went to an Apple Store and bought products, the average value of which turned out to be about 6000 dollars, but at the time of payment the credit card was rejected, but the Apple employees were given a phone number to which an accomplice answered and provided a payment authorization code.
Based on this phone call, the Apple employees were tricked into accepting the payment, and so the man quietly left with the products from the stores to continue his deceptions. In the end he was caught by the authorities, but until that moment he managed to cheat Apple of products with a total value of 350.000 dollars in just a few months.
For those at Apple, the amount is insignificant compared to his monthly earnings, but that does not mean that he did not involve the police to catch the man. Apple has repeatedly been the target of thefts and frauds, and each time it has managed to collaborate with the authorities to catch those who stole its products.
"Sacramento man pleaded guilty to scamming Apple out of hundreds of thousands of dollars within a few months during a nationwide debit card fraud scheme, the US Attorney's Office said. Marcus Israel Butler, 33, entered his guilty plea on Dec. 19. Court documents reveal that Butler traveled from Sacramento to cities throughout California and the rest of the United States, including Modesto, New York, Baltimore, Chicago, North Carolina and Alaska to commit his fraud scheme."
