Apple couldn't tell fake iPhones from real ones, lost $2.5M to scammers

Headline seems to be misleading: it sounds like they were returning real iPhones with doctored serial numbers.

They were convicted of mail fraud and attempted conspiracy of mail fraud.

If they had used FedEX or UPS this wouldn't apply or would it? What they did was fraud but that may not be as severe as mail fraud.

"Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud (...) by any private or commercial interstate carrier"

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1341

Don’t think that matters as far as criminality goes. FedEX could have cooperated with the law enforcement just as well. Mail and wire fraud doesn’t mean only USPS and only metal wire. They are broad enough to encompass inter-state fraud as much as they can.

Oh no, they took $2.5 million out of Apple’s $100s of billions what will Apple ever do?