We are grateful to our FBI partners for their work on this case.” “The Justice Department will not tolerate fraud against any company, be it a multinational corporation or a mom-and-pop operation. “If these defendants thought their million-dollar fraud would go unnoticed simply because they targeted a trillion-dollar company, they were sorely mistaken,” said U.S. Ali admitted that he and an unindicted coconspirator used those QR codes to purchase thousands of dollars’ worth of Apple products from brick-and-mortar retail stores in New York.Īccording to the indictment, the conspiracy involved more than $1.5 million in fraudulently obtained Apple gift cards. He then loaded the giftcards onto Apple Passbook, an application that generates QR codes for the value of gift cards, and sent screenshots of those codes to Mr. Tout-Puissant admitted that he stole multiple Apple point-of-sale devices – nicknamed “Isaacs” – from an Apple store in Southlake, Texas, then sat outside the store, logged onto the store’s wifi network, and loaded thousands of dollars of fraudulent store credits onto gift cards. Tout-Puissant was sentenced today by the same judge to 60 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $1.26 million in restitution to Apple.Īccording to plea papers, Mr. District Judge David Godbey to 37 months in federal prison Mr. Ali was sentenced in October 2021 by U.S.

Syed Ali, 29, and his co-conspirator, Jason Tout-Puissant, 27, both pleaded guilty to wire fraud in 2019. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. The perpetrators of a $1.5 million Apple gift card scheme have been sentenced to a combined eight years in federal prison, announced U.S.

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