Apple: Many 'Genuine' Apple Products on Amazon Are Fake

In this Sept. 16, 2016, file photo a woman compares a new jet black iPhone 7, right, with her iPhone 6 at an Apple Store in Chicago.

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San Francisco (AP) -- Apple says it has been buying Apple chargers and cables labeled as genuine on Amazon.com and has found nearly 90 percent of them to be counterfeit.

The revelation comes in a federal lawsuit filed by Apple against a New Jersey company on Monday over what Apple says are counterfeit products that were sold on Amazon.