Ever had to buy a new Apple charger from Amazon? Well beware even those labelled as the genuine article — according to a recent lawsuit filed by Apple, 90 percent of them are fake.

The iPhone-maker is currently suing a company named Mobile Star LLC for trademark infringement, alleging that the firm has been passing off counterfeit Apple chargers as the real thing. PatentlyApple has posted the text of the lawsuit, in which Apple reports buying a number of Mobile Star’s chargers from Amazon.

As the screenshot below shows, these chargers were listed as genuine Apple products being shipped and sold by Amazon. But Apple’s engineers said that when the products arrived, they were found to be “poorly constructed, with inferior or missing…

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