Twins sentenced over $2.2 million AT&T Apple hardware fraud

Twin brothers from Miami have been sentenced to years in prison after pleading guilty of using identity theft to buy Apple devices and charging them to AT&T customer accounts.The pair, Luis Hernandez Socarras and Jorge Hernandez Socarras, worked the nationwide scheme from March 2019 to January 2020, according to Justice.gov. During that time, they fraudulently accessed approximately 2,366 AT&T customers' mobile accounts, and used them to buy millions of dollars worth of iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches.Court documents say that the two men would travel to multiple electronics stores across 26 States in order to pick up devices that had been fraudulently ordered. They would then return to Miami to fence the devices. Read more...