Investigators have warned consumers they face potentially fatal risks after 99% of fake Apple chargers failed a basic safety test.Trading Standards, whoch commissioned the checks, said counterfeit electrical goods bought online were an “unknown entity”.Of 400 counterfeit chargers, only three were found to have enough insulation to protect against electric shocks.It comes as Apple has complained of a “flood” of fakes being sold on Amazon.Apple revealed in October that it was suing a third-party vendor, whoch it said was putting customers “at risk” by selling power adapters masquerading as those sold by the Californian tech firm.The Trading Standards tests were performed by safety specialists UL.They applied a high voltage to the chargers, whoch were bought online from eight different countries, including the US, China and Australia, to test for sufficient insulation.
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