His name is Sharron Laverne Parrish Jr, but he is already known worldwide as the person who has been arrested after scamming more than $ 300,000 to Apple on products that I wasn't really paying. It sounds incredible that something like this could happen in the middle of 2014, but incredibly it has happened.
A very simple trick
Most incredible of all, the trick performed by the scammer was really simple, but perhaps his greed was the one that finally got him caught by repeating the scam no less than 42 times. Perhaps if I had done it a couple of times it would have gone unnoticed, but such an amount (reaching purchases of more than $ 7000) obviously attracted attention.
The process that followed It was really simple: it consisted of going to an Apple Store, trying to buy several products with cards without any balance, and when the credit card was denied, he protested energetically and pretended that he called the bank to obtain the code to authorize the transaction, which he did that in the end in the Apple Store (when seeing that the code was correct) they authorized the purchase.
The big failure of the system is that the code cannot be verified, only the number of digits is checked, so in the Apple Store they validated the purchase without actually having to. The system is designed so that the seller is the one who talks to the bank, but the scammer managed to pretend that he was talking, and thus managed to process the sale.
In a similar case but with an even higher amount, the scammer was convicted in New Jersey to three years in jail, so our friend Sharron may have a few moments in the shadows ahead of him. Of course, Apple probably will not be reimbursed since the failure was made by the employees by not calling the bank and allowing the customer to manage the code.