Fake iPhones are being sold to unsuspecting victims in Russia in an increasing common scam according to EnglishRussia.com.
They are often being sold in the manner of a big rush, something like Look, bro, I dont have enough money for my train/plane tickets or whatever, but Ive got a real iPhone, look the battery is dead but when you turn it on pushing the power you can see an apple logo for a while, so just charge it and you have an iphone!. So people fall on this and then bring such devices to the service centers where they are being disassembled, and what a surprise - inside there is no anything looking like iPhone inner stuff but only two batteries and a light bulb lighting an apple logo shadow when the power button is being pressed, also there is a bar of steel so that the phone can weigh like a real thing.
what would they do with the rest of the phone? keep it for wut? they'd need to find a broken phone to put the real stuff in huh? wouldnt that cost money too?
it's not about 3rd world or not. Just ppl are smart in a different way :)