Hoatian Sun and Pengfei Xue are on their way to prison after the Justice Department said their iPhone repair scheme cost the tech giant millions in losses.

Together with their co-conspirators, the 34-year-old scammers, Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue, squeezed Apple for about $2.5 million, as employees for years failed to detect what the DOJ described as a rather "sophisticated" scheme between 2017 and 2019.

The Justice Department said Thursday two Chinese men who tried to defraud Apple, Inc. have been sentenced for trying to defraud Apple out of millions of dollars worth of iPhones.

Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue received prison sentences for defrauding Apple out of 6,000 iPhones worth over $2.5 million by submitting counterfeit devices for authentic replacements. They were convicted of mail fraud and conspiracy,

The pair submitted counterfeit iPhones to Apple for repair as a way to get Apple to exchange them for genuine replacements.

The tech giant suffered a loss of more than $2.5 million as a result of the scam, that unfolded in the United States.

They then submitted the fake iPhones, with spoofed serial numbers and/or IMEI numbers, to Apple retail stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers, including the Apple Store

Duo to cough up $1.5M for pulling off multi-million-dollar exchange swindle Two fraudsters will spend nearly five years behind bars each and pay a combined $1.5 million for bilking Apple out of millions of dollars worth of iPhones.