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California arraigns pair in US$4 mil. phone theft ringAP SACRAMENTO, California -- A California couple were arraigned Tuesday on charges they collected hundreds of stolen smartphones from across the U.S., then sold them in Hong Kong for as much as US$2,000 each.
March 14, 2013, 11:46 am TWN Shou Lin Wen, 39, and his wife, Yuting Tan, 27, made nearly US$4 million from the scheme in just eight months, the state attorney general said. Prosecutors say the couple and unnamed co-conspirators recruited people from homeless shelters as far away as North Carolina to sign up for multiyear service contracts that let them buy multiple smartphones at a discount. The charges allege the buyers had no intention of paying the service contracts and were paid a small fee for their help.
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