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He allegedly netted $US 1.5 mil. The scheme allegedly netted $US 2.2 mil. Using the reported amount of 5700 phones, that's about $385 per phone. Considering that these are not legitimate phones (pre-production test units, no warranty, etc), you'd expect to pay somewhere around 50% of the price of a legitimate phone. At $385 per phone, that seems rather spot on.
You mean to tell me he didn't even sell a warranty? Usually scammers are reluctant to miss out on the biggest scams of all ;)
 
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