14 DAY TRIAL // A typical iPhone sale scam is being reported in Australia, where a woman who requested two iPhones through a classified ad site got tricked into buying iPhone boxes with actual apples inside.
According to the Herald Sun, the 21-year-old woman had arranged to meet up with another woman at Sunnybank McDonald's where the transaction reportedly took place.
“The woman paid $1500 [USD$1336.95 / €1,000] and was handed two iPhone boxes that looked new but she did not check inside,” says the paper.
To her surprise, when she came back home and opened the boxes, she found apples in them – “real apples, not the iPhone variety,” according to the report.
The newspaper then goes through the motions citing someone from the Crime Prevention Unit handing out the usual Captain-Obvious tips regarding such transactions, including the winning advice to “stay away […] if something seems too good to be true.”
What’s sad is not that Crime Prevention staffers get to say the most obvious things and have newspapers quote them, but that such advice really is necessary for some.