To make the pricey phone calls, thieves would send the SIMs overseas where they would be plugged into devices that would dial the premium numbers around the clock. The ring stole about 1,000 iPhones to carry out their scheme.

iPhone 4

This wasn't exactly a crime, but you can't talk about the iPhone and the law in 2010 without mentioning the lost iPhone caper. In April, police in search of evidence on how the gadget blog obtained an unreleased iPhone that had been lost in a Redwood City bar. The and no charges were laid against Gizmodo or Chen. It was later revealed that was the man who allegedly sold the iPhone 4 to the gadget blog for $5000.

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