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#barearmsmagazine Most Apple Store thieves we&rsquo;ve seen prefer to go with the classic smash and grab technique, but according to federal court charges, one fraudster in Florida broke his Apple heist into 42 separate scams by using a simple but major flaw in Apple&rsquo;s credit card processing system to plunder $309,768 worth of products from Apple&rsquo;s retail locations.


A Secret Service criminal complaint has charged Sharron Laverene Parrish Jr. from Tampa, Florida of tricking Apple staff in 16 states to accept a meaningless credit card override code that allowed him to bypass declined sales on his credit and debit cards.

To pull of his scam, Parrish would rack up bills of over $7,000 in new products, and then when the sale was declined he would 