A federal judge declined to dismiss claims that Apple benefitted monetarily from stolen gift card schemes, meaning that the company will have to face those claims.
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila dismissed some claims from a 2020 class-action lawsuit alleging that Apple perpetuates and benefits from iTunes gift card scams. However, he did not dismiss claims that Apple received some of the proceeds from fraud.
The original complaint, lodged in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in July 2020, took aim at scams in which attackers persuade victims to send them money in the form of iTunes gift cards. The lawsuit alleged that Apple was at fault for these types of schemes, and benefitted monetarily from them.
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