SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio businessman Sergio Soto Jr. started iPhone Buyerz and Phone...
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Charging documents filed along with Soto’s plea agreement in May show he operated the scheme from May 2020 through October 2020. Soto conducted “mass advertising” via Facebook Marketplace and other social media sites promising to deliver bulk cellphone orders, the plea agreement said. But after Soto failed to complete several wholesale purchase orders by a person identified as “C.W.” in the summer of 2020, the recycler stopped supplying phones to Soto. The witness was a business acquaintance of the recycler’s owner.
A victim in Nazareth, Penn., placed $1.3 million worth of orders. Soto told the buyer he had access to cellphones at auctions and had phones on hand. He sent the victim invoices that listed the number of phones set to be shipped.
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