Man buys iPhone 6S, gets pancake in a box - CNET

For when he opened it, he found nothing more than a pancake.

Had he been possessed of a sense of humor, he might have, as one of my colleagues suggested, muttered: "Syrup, where's the nearest iHop?"

I suspect, though, that he felt (om)let down.

You might find this story fanciful. Surely someone made it up. Perhaps.

However, this isn't the first account of someone falling for a scam that promises cheap Apple devices. The Shaghaiist reported earlier this month that a woman also ordered an iPhone online. She got a phone. The only slight kink was that it came from Pear not Apple.

These scams are easier to perpetrate because they happen online. For example, the man who paid $450 for a MacBook on eBay and got, well, only a picture of it.

But what about the long history of Apple scams that happened face-to-face?

There was the woman who paid $180 for an iPad made of wood. The transaction took place in a McDonald's parking lot.

What about the woman who paid $250 for a laptop? It was made of paper. This deal occurred in a gas station parking lot.

Even reputable stores aren't immune from miscreant behavior. Who could forget the woman who bought an iPad at Walmart and only got a box full of notepads?