The saga of the Escobar phone scam finally ended

In a plea agreement, the United States lawyers explain how Olof Kyros Gustafsson and Escobar, Inc. have taken orders for phones and other products marked in the resemblance of the lord of drugs Pablo EscobarSeed products with technological examiners and influencers on social networks “to try to increase demand”, did not deliver products to customers and transferred customer money to “use funds for personal use”.

In Brownlee videoHe unpacked an Escobar Fold 2 phone that was dispatched to him and found that it was just a fold of Samsung Galaxy – a phone costing almost $ 2,000, much more than the Escobar Inc. at $ 400 to sell it – with a gold sticker on it.

Escobar Inc. also sold an “$ 500 essco flamethrower” which was “modeled after” Not-at-Flamethrower of the boring companyThe “Escobar Gold 11 Pro Phone” of $ 500 which was “marketed as an Apple iPhone 11 Pro renovated” and Escobar Cash which was “marketed as the first” physical cryptocurrency “in the world”, according to the advocacy agreement.

Instead of sending products to paid customers, Gustafsson sent them a “property certificate”, a book or other promotional documents from Escobar Inc. “to create a postal file, known as the DoJ in his press release. Then, when a customer tried to obtain a refund for something that has not been delivered, “Gustafsson has fraudulently returned the payment processor to proof for the certificate of ownership or other documents as proof that the product itself was dispatched and that the customer had received it so that the requests for reimbursement are refused.”

A judge provided for an hearing for determining the sentence on December 5, where Gustafsson risks up to 20 years in federal prison for the counts linked to fraud and up to 10 for the counts linked to money laundering. Gustafsson must also pay up to $ 1.3 million on return.