Grand Smartphone Robbery, or how someone stole nearly 8.5 thousand phones from Samsung

Grand Smartphone Robbery, or how someone stole nearly 8.5 thousand phones from Samsung

Mr. Lee has been working for Samsung since 2010 as a part of a ”jobs for disabled people” program. His job was to maintain old devices that developers used for working on updates and new features. Mr. Lee has been an honest employee for four years until, alas, he turned into a crook. As it turns out, Lee had (has?) gambling problems and managed to amass an impressive eight hundred thousand dollars of debt. Disabled gambler decided to turn to crime in order to pay off the debt. Over the period two years, from December 2014 to November 2016, Lee had stolen eight thousand four hundred seventy four phones from work, managing to pay over seven hundred thousand dollars of his debt. Now, how did he managed to pull this out, you may ask? The secret was Mr. Lee’s disability. As he was (is?) moving around in a wheelchair, he was excluded from the metal detector security scan. Therefore he could easily bring a number of phones out of work every time he was leaving. Now you may ask, how was he caught? Well, as it turned out, phones that Lee was selling on the black market were not retail units and were never meant for sale; therefore, every phone has had a ”Not for sale” notification on their batteries (as shown on picture). Thanks to this, law eventually caught scent of something fishy going on and found Mr. Lee out.

I guess that our disabled gambler will now have to pay off his debt from behind the prison bars. Good luck!

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