Hoatian Sun and Pengfei Xue are on their way to prison after the Justice Department said their iPhone repair scheme cost the tech giant millions in losses.

Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue received prison sentences for defrauding Apple out of 6,000 iPhones worth over $2.5 million by submitting counterfeit devices for authentic replacements. They were convicted of mail fraud and conspiracy,

Two people have been sent to prison over a scam which reportedly cost tech giant Apple some $2.5 million. Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue ran a scam posing as a repair shop that sent counterfeit phones to the business.

Haotian Sun, 34, a Chinese citizen living in Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced to 57 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $1,072,200 in restitution to Apple plus a forfeiture money judgment of $53,610.

Two individuals who conned Apple into replacing fake faulty iPhones with real ones, have been sentenced to years in prison.

Two Maryland-based fraudsters who cheated Apple out of $2.5 million with fake iPhones were handed lengthy prison sentences and were ordered to pay restitution.

Two men involved in an elaborate scheme duping Apple into replacing about 6,000 counterfeit iPhones with genuine iPhones were sentenced to prison this week, the US Department of Justice announced Thursday.

The tech giant suffered a loss of more than $2.5 million as a result of the scam, that unfolded in the United States.