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Andy Meek
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- The US Customs and Border Protection agency announced on Friday that it has seized a big shipment of counterfeit Apple AirPods at JFK International Airport, apparently en route from Hong Kong to Nevada.
- The agency tweeted out some images from the seizure on Sunday. The tweet read, in part, "That's not an (apple emoji)."
- The problem: Twitter users noticed in the images, which you can see below, that the boxes appear to contain legitimate OnePlus earbuds. A CBP press release announcing the bust made no mention of OnePlus, which confused people even further.
Federal agents made a big bust of counterfeit Apple AirPods back on August 31, a seizure they were apparently pretty proud of because the agency involved (US Customers and Border Protection) also tweeted out news of the bust on Sunday. In all, CBP officers claimed to have seized 2,000 counterfeit AirPods at an air cargo facility at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
The AirPods were apparently on their way to Nevada from Hong Kong, and the feds suggested that if the earbuds would have been genuine, they would have had a manufacturer's suggested retail price that made the whole stash worth $398,000. The only problem -- the gadgets do appear to have been genuine, as the slew of comments underneath the CBP's tweet noted, given the quite visible OnePlus logo on the image of the product box that the feds included in their tweet. Apparently, copying Apple's designs really does have some drawbacks.
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