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iPod Repairman Defrauds Apple, Gets Arrested

by Tim Stevens on March 22, 2009 at 02:09 PM

iPod Repairman Defrauds Apple, is Arrested

We've talked about the business of iPod repair and how a number of industrious people in NYC opened businesses fixing music players. The trend has spread since and, naturally, one of these repairmen saw fit to use his talents for for more than the joy of helping customers -- he was arrested for tricking Apple into sending him 9,000 Shuffle players.

Nicholas Woodhams, 23, from Kalamazoo, Michigan started a business fixing people's players, but reputedly soon figured out that he could generate bogus serial numbers to get new ones. By typing in a fake serial number on the Apple support Web page, he would trick the company into sending him a replacement for a player that didn't exist. Apple sent him the new model with the expectation that it would receive a faulty one in return (a cross-ship) or, if nothing was received, would charge his credit card. But, Woodhams used fake credit cards so that he got the players for free. He'd then turn around and sell them for $49 apiece, netting a tidy profit.

Woodhams is now charged with fraud and money laundering, and Apple has its own lawsuit pending. We're guessing he won't be able to shuffle out of this one. [From: SFGate]

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Tags: apple, crime, crime and punishment, CrimeAndPunishment, fraud, ipod, ipod repair, ipod shuffle, IpodRepair, IpodShuffle, repair

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