Don’t buy or use fake Apple device chargers as an astonishing 99 percent of them are unsafe and their use puts you at risk, a global safety body warns today.

Danger warning

In tests conducted by Illinois-based firm UL and commissioned by the UK Trading Standards organization, all but three of 400 fake chargers sold as being made by Apple failed basic safety tests.

These fakes are dangerous.

“During a recent operation investigators bought 400 counterfeit Apple chargers from suppliers around the world, online, and found that 397 of them failed a basic safety test,” the organization warned.

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