Posted on 12/24/2021 7:57:42 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
a low-profile, solo conman scored one of the biggest thefts of the year Wednesday when he walked out of the Apple store with an estimated $70,000 in merchandise.
A source said the thief, posing as a FedEx driver, knocked on the store’s service door on Lower Michigan Avenue, and an employee gave him a cartload of outgoing packages. All totaled, about $70,000 worth of iPhones, MacBooks, iPads, and other products were taken, according to a report.
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The phones can be activated. There was a store in a strip mall in Los Angeles that sold over $20 million in stolen cell phones. They had the ability thru phishing to reactivate the phones. They had others log ins from the telco companies.
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