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Monday, September 24, 2007

Chinese Theft o' the Day: Fakest Fake Phone Yet

A Taiwanese TV station is reporting that a man spend $600 on three so-called Nokia phones at a store in China. Not only were the phones not Nokias, they WEREN'T EVEN REAL PHONES. Circuit boards inside had their electronics painted on to look real. The man claims he was shown real Nokia N73 phones, but that the clerk pulled the old switcheroo under the counter.