Before the launch of iCloud and protection that allows you to block completely the devices associated to an account, iPhone theft were the order of the day. But the arrival of iCloud and the possibility of block by full the terminal in case of theft or loss, forced to them friends of it outside to change its method of work. For a while now, what has become popular among thieves is to go straight to the source, namely the Apple Stores. A few months ago we told you about the case of several thieves who with the official Jersey of the employees of the shops in the tents store and were made with a large number of devices. Before being detained is had made with a booty by value of 66,000 dollars.
In this occasion, the police of Chicago has arrested to six individuals accused of steal in several stores of Apple and have been accused of belonging to an organization criminal. According to the authorities, residents in New York, travel to different parts of the country, rented a car and engaged in fraudulent using stolen credit cards using counterfeit identification permits purchases so that they could freely buy anywhere, but the most widely used were Apple stores.
According to the Chicago police, surveillance was increased in the Apple Store in Deer Park where in the last weeks had been them regularly. Six detainees carried out purchases between Wednesday and Sunday, before being arrested, amounting to $10,000. Currently only two of them is found in prison without possibility of bail, while them others four members have could leave until is celebrate the trial paying a substantial bail that guarantees his return for the trial.
But if we look at theft suffered from stores of Apple which is striking is that of an individual who made purchases at the Apple Stores in Florida by 309.000 dollars using a credit card from a bank account that had been closed earlier. Seems that the operation of them banks in United States not has nothing that see with the others countries, because here for example is impossible to pay with a card of debit if in that time not there is a euro in it has and less 309.000 dollars in several shopping.
