For whatever reason, Apple's iPod ends up in the middle of quite a few crimes. The latest story, however, is even more extreme than usual. Nicholas Arthur Woodhams, a 23 year old from Kalamazoo, Michigan, was recently slapped upside the gord with federal charges of fraud and money laundering after he managed to con Apple into shipping him around 9,000 iPod shuffles. As the story goes, he managed to somehow correctly guess thousands of valid shuffle serial numbers and have replacements shipped to him; once they arrived, he sold them for less than MSRP to excited buyers, all while giving Apple a prepaid VISA number that would reject the charges after he failed to send back the nonexistent "original" shuffle.
Are they sure they were stolen? I mean, maybe Apple made this story up to throw people off the track. They might have just lost a bunch. It's OK to admit it, you guys made a tiny, almost useless device. Once the shine of something you will no doubt see glued to model's fingers for a photo shoot wears off, you're left with the equivalent of running a coin through a machine to get an oval of aluminum-ridden souvenir for the low cost of
actual money.
And also? If you're going to yoink nine
thousand iAnythings, wouldn't this work better if they were valuable to begin with?
This story looks Photoshopped.