Apple claims Amazon is ‘flooded’ with dangerous fake chargers and cables
Consumers are being conned into buying fake phone chargers and cables that are ‘flooding’ the popular website Amazon.com, Apple has claimed.
Apple said nearly 90% of products like chargers and cables that it has bought through Amazon’s ‘Fulfillment by Amazon’ programme over the last nine months were counterfeit.
The company made the claims in legal papers as it filed a trademark infringement cases against Mobile Star LLC for selling counterfeit power products through Amazon.com.
It said the goods, which are being sold as genuine Apple products, could “overheat, catch fire, and deliver a deadly electric shock” to consumers.
Apple says fake chargers and cables are being labelled as genuine (Apple/Patently Apple)
In the legal papers, published online by Patently Apple, it said: “Over the last nine months, Apple, as part of its ongoing brand protection efforts, has purchased well over 100 iPhone devices, Apple power products, and Lightning cables sold as genuine by sellers on Amazon.com and delivered through Amazon’s “Fulfillment by Amazon” program.
“Apple’s internal examination and testing for these products revealed almost 90% of these products are counterfeit.”
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The papers added: “Apple is concerned that consumers are being deceived into purchasing counterfeit products on Amazon.com and elsewhere in the mistaken belief that they are purchasing genuine Apple products.”
An Amazon spokeswoman told the BBC it takes such matters seriously and has “zero tolerance” for the sale of counterfeits on its site.
