Escobar Inc sues Apple for $2.6 billion

The Escobar Gold 11 Pro is basically a refurbished iPhone 11 Pro with an affordable price tag of $500

Pablo Escobar's brother sued Apple Inc after alleging that his FaceTime was hacked.

Roberto Escobar is the brother of the now-deceased narcotics kingpin, Pablo Escobar, and he runs the company "Escobar Inc." The company made headlines into the tech world after announcing two foldable phones: The Escobar Fold and Fold 2, which are essentially just Royole FlexPai and a Samsung Galaxy Fold wrapped in Gold Stickers and sold for a much cheaper price.

According to the lawsuit, Roberto Escobar visited an Apple Store in Medellin, Colombia in 2018, after a sales agent assured him that the iPhone X is the most secured phone one could ever buy.

However, less than a year after he bought the iPhone X, he allegedly received a threatening letter. He became concern for his family's safety.

He claimed to have done some "research: and discovered that FaceTime had a vulnerability, thus he had to "spend a substantial amount of money and time" to relocate his family and avoid attempts at "threatening his life"

He sued Apple Inc. for $2.6 billion, saying that they "failed to provide a phone free of exploits and security vulnerabilities"

However, in late May 2020, he is known to sell a refurbished iPhone 11 Pro through the company's website, Escobar Inc. which he claims is the true "Apple Killer" and through marketing and lewd campaigns, gain word from popular tech reviewers like Marques Brownlee.

The phone and the previous attempts to sell the Fold 2, has been accused to be a scam and nothing more than a money laundering scheme. Users who ordered the Fold 2 never got their phone, and instead received a book that contains information about Pablo Escobar.

Sources: The Independent, Escobar Inc. (note: do not buy the phone at all costs if you don't want to lose your $500, the link is for reference purposes only)