U.S. Customs has seized AirPods and fake headphones for $ 62.6 million since October

In the nine months to July, US finance authorities seized $ 62.2 million in fraudulent transactions Ma AirPod and other false ropes according to his findings More. About 360,000 groups were confiscated during that period. The commission said the seizure of wireless headphones has increased by 50 percent over the past five years “because things like the Apple AirPods have become more popular.”

US Customs and Border Protection has seized 295,000 counterfeit headphones worth $ 61.7 million in the last year of state law (starting in October), so it appears there are more headphones flooding the U.S. market than ever before. The value of fake headphones seized by agents in 2019 was as low as $ 3.3 million.

These figures are probably just a drop in the ocean compared to the amount of fossils that evade previous boundaries. It is impossible to know the exact figures, but a comparison made by the US Chamber of Commerce in 2016 shows that officials have taken 2.5% of the world’s fake goods.

Since that comparison, More suggests that fraudulent AirPods could cost Apple billions in markets lost in the US this year alone, assuming consumers buy the right colors. Traditional healers have it Phony AirPods several times in the US in recent years. The four seized acquisitions would have been worth about $ 13 million if they were real Apple, officials say.

Of course, there are other types of fraudulent manufacturers that copy, and it is not known how many fake headphones that the hijackers carry with the AirPods knockoffs. False hearing aids are not really new, but having complex numbers on the scalp shows how they are spreading. Once again, where even real estate agents believe , the magnitude of the problem may not be fully understood.