After the story of the woman who bought a mirror thinking it was an iPad tablet, here it is from the USA we have now another story in which an "amateur carpenter" from Miami sold a wooden iPad for $400 to a woman. The fake product was bought in a parking lot in Daytona Beach, a thief put a piece of wood, disguised as an iPad tablet, in a FedEx box, telling the woman that he needed money to get home and that's how he managed to get it $400 from her for that piece of wood.
A woman in Daytona Beach learned this the hard way after forking over $400 for what turned out to be a square piece of wood with a piece of glass taped on the front. When police later nabbed the salesman — a Miami man with a long criminal record — they found several more low-tech Apple products in his car. By comparison, last week's crimes seem almost quaint. After police booked Canady — who still had an outstanding warrant in Miami — they found a number of faux-Apples in the car. A pair of MacBooks, pictured below, were made from wood covered in silver duct tape with an Apple logo carved out in the middle and a Best Buy price tag taped on the back.
The woman complained to the police about the deception, the police managed to catch the criminal who had a rather large record and in his car they discovered what you see in the images above. Several pieces of wood were covered with adhesive tape to look like MacBooks or iPad tablets, and if the police hadn't caught him, then several people would have paid hundreds of dollars for items that weren't even worth 10 % of the amount spent.
Fortunately, for now this practice exists only in the USA, but it would not be excluded that other thieves could learn something from those there.
