“Apple Inc. appears to be the victim of a real shuffle,” The Associated Press reports.
“Prosecutors filed fraud and money laundering charges against a repairman accused of acquiring more than 9,000 replacement iPod shuffle players by entering serial numbers into Apple’s Web site,” AP reports. “Nicholas Woodhams, 23, of the Kalamazoo, Mich., area, turned around and sold thousands for $49 each… [He] knew that iPod owners could get a replacement if a Shuffle had problems, the government said. ‘Through trial and error, the defendant determined that he could guess valid, warrantied serial numbers and enter them into Apple’s Web site for ‘replacement’ units without ever in fact purchasing or possessing the ‘original’ units,’ Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler wrote.”
When Apple doesn’t receive defective iPods in return, the company charges the credit card provided by the customer. According to the AP article, “Woodhams used cards that rejected the transaction.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If convicted, the only shuffle he’ll know will involve leg irons.
