Nadav Nirenberg is an unlucky American whose iPhone was lost in a taxi on Christmas Eve. Shortly after the disappearance of the terminal, the man noticed that the person who came into his possession started using his account on a dating website. Thinking how he could recover his terminal, the man decided to take a picture from Google, make a fake profile with it and convince the person in question to meet him.
Nirenberg — who plays trombone in the punk band Streetlight Manifesto — lost his iPhone 4 on New Year's Eve during a livery-cab ride to a gig in Midtown. The next morning, he learned via an OKCupid e-mail alert that someone had been using the phone to send messages to girls. He plucked a photo from Google Images and dubbed it "Jennifer in BK," who is smiling into a Web cam with a bit of exposed cleavage. The two then set up a fake profile with the name "Jennifer Gonzalez." Nirenberg sent a message to the phone bandit later that day. It quickly aroused the crook's interest. The bandit knocked on his door at around 7 pm holding a bottle of wine. He was clean-shaven and smelled like cologne. But instead of a kiss, the musician tapped him on the shoulder from behind, flashed a hammer and demanded his phone back.
After not many conversations on the website, the man convinced his interlocutor to meet him and thus managed to recover his iPhone. He went to the meeting accompanied by the hammer in the picture, he "convinced" the alleged thief to give him the terminal back and gave him $20 for it, all ending without calling the police and apparently without anyone getting hurt. I have to admit that this is probably the most ingenious recovery of an iPhone, but it is not advisable to follow it.
