Receieved a fake iPhone from China and want to recycle it for money, is it legal to?

So my dad got me an iPhone 6s Plus from China and it turned out to be fake, you can tell it's fake by the weight and the software (Android software instead of iOS which I found extremely weird). Now I want to recycle it for money in order to buy a real iPhone. I just want to know if it's legal to recycle it even though it's fake. What would happen if I do recycle it and they find out it's fake?

You can recycle anything at a recycle place, Apple won't give you anything for it, obviously they will know its fake. I would never buy anything from china… Ever, they steal, hack, etc. I check almost everything I buy to make sure its not a chinese company

Dealing in counterfeit goods is a felony in many jurisdictions.