Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.A Calgary senior is warning others after he was scammed out of $1,000 after buying what he thought was a new iPhone 15 Pro Max.The 80-year-old, whom Global News is not fully identifying due to safety and retribution concerns, said he bought the phone on May 1 on Facebook Marketplace.
Boyd told Global News while the money he paid for the phone wasn’t “trivial or anything,” his biggest regret is the danger he put his family in by allowing the scammer into his home.“It’s far beyond the thousand dollars. Far beyond that,” he said. “I brought the guy here face-to-face.”Click to share quote on Twitter: "It's the agony of realizing I put my wife and my family in jeopardy."“At first glance, it’s a really good fake,” Yawney said.
The apps also weren’t able to be edited, which Yawney said showed they were basically “screenshots” and not real apps. He also noticed a strange circle that popped up on the phone’s main screen. “The thing is if you don’t use an iPhone and you’re picking up an iPhone for the first time — you would have no idea,” he said. “You have to look really closely to know that this iPhone isn’t legit.”
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