{"id":67988,"date":"2013-01-06T12:11:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T10:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=67988"},"modified":"2013-01-07T09:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T07:04:00","slug":"iphone-thief-duped-by-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/67988-iphone-thief-duped-by-victim.html","title":{"rendered":"iPhone thief duped by victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New York City musician used a combination of technology, seduction, a hammer and a bribe to reclaim his missing <a title=\"iPhone\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/487844-iPhone\">iPhone<\/a> from a confused crook.<\/p>\n<p>Jazz trombonist Nadav Nirenberg says he left the phone in a livery cab on New Year&#8217;s Eve. The next morning, the 27-year-old learned via email that someone was sending messages to women using a dating app on the phone.<\/p>\n<p>Nirenberg logged on to the service and offered the man a date &#8211; posing as a woman. He even posted a picture of a pretty girl.<\/p>\n<p>When the culprit arrived at Nirenberg&#8217;s Brooklyn apartment building with wine, the musician greeted him with a $20 bill while holding a hammer -just in case.<\/p>\n<p>The thief handed him the iPhone and left without a word.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Samsung Galaxy S3 vs Galaxy Nexus vs iPhone 4S vs HTC One X\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/50487-samsung-galaxy-s3-vs-galaxy-nexus-vs-iphone-4s-vs-htc-one-x.html\"><strong>Samsung Galaxy S3 vs Galaxy Nexus vs iPhone 4S vs HTC One X<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Android smartphone benchmark comparison\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/41441-android-smartphone-benchmark-comparison.html\"><strong>Android smartphone benchmark comparison<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Which smartphone has the best camera?\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/58415-which-smartphone-has-the-best-camera.html\"><strong>Which smartphone has the best camera?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York City musician used a combination of technology, seduction, a hammer and a bribe to reclaim his missing iPhone from a confused crook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":66900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36,1125,17656],"class_list":["post-67988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-iphone","tag-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}