Fake iPad 2s mistakenly sold at Canadian Best Buy, Future Shop stores

When you buy a new gadget, like an iPad 2 for example, you take it home with the expectation that, at the least, the product you wanted will be inside. For several Canadians who shopped at Best Buy and Future Shop, that wasn’t the case–instead, they received fake iPad 2s.

Not just any fake iPad 2, either. The “product” as many as 24 customers received, according to a report by CTV, was modeling clay. Both companies were skeptical at first, and ran under the assumption that it was the victims themselves that were trying to scam them. After CTV broadcasted a story about the scam, Best Buy and Future Shop changed their tune.

“It was all sealed properly and everything,” Dayna Chabot, a victim of the scam, told CTV. “It was the shape of an iPad. They even had a piece of clay where the charger went and everything. Like, they knew what they were doing.”

Unsurprisingly, this little goof has prompted the two companies to launch a major fraud investigation to track down the source.

“Customers don’t expect to receive this kind of product from Future Shop, so it’s a very serious matter and something we are addressing right away for anyone who has been impacted,” Future Shop spokesman Elliott Chun told CTV, adding that saddens his company that some people “stoop to be this opportunistic and make money in this kind of organised way”.

via Silicon Republic