Chinese scammers are selling "Frankenstein iPhones" refurbished parts of broken phones as NEW.

These leaked images show how Frankenstein iPhones created out of broken mobiles are being repackaged and sold as new.
With millions of iPhones in circulation, the booming business of cannibalising iPhones has now taken off in a big way in south-east China.
The phones, purchased mostly from Western countries, are shipped en masse to China where they are stripped down and tested to see which parts are working.

They are then put back together and the cases polished to make them seem like new – and then sold at the market price.

According to the insider who took these pictures of the process taking place, the innocent buyers cannot tell the difference between the repackaged phones and new devices as the rebuilt phones from cannibalised parts look like new.
The anonymous person said: ‘The only way to tell is to open up and look inside and who does that when they buy a new phone? They are carefully polished to make them indistinguishable from new devices.’

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