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Counterfeiting entire walled orchard fruit stands, er, Apple Stores, in China.

There is no truth to the rumor that I’m starting that they were inspired by Wall Street Banks, who posed as legitimate businesses with solid products while selling bags of air securitized mortgages and credit default swaps.

The 27-year-old blogger, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the set-up of the stores was so convincing that the employees themselves seemed to believe they worked for Apple.

“It looked like an Apple store. It had the classic Apple store winding staircase and weird upstairs sitting area. The employees were even wearing those blue T-shirts with the chunky Apple name tags around their necks,” she wrote on her blog.

The scale of the operation does inspire a sort of grudging admiration.

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