I just sold my previous (4th) iPhone on eBay for about $200 (covering the cost of my upgrade to a new iPhone). Along the way I got a handful of email phising scams trying to get me to end my auction and sell the phone directly. The best one was this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hello Seller.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I saw the placement of your Mobile phone on Ebay site and i wish to make an immediate purchase of the phone for my Pastor as a gift for his upcoming birthday. So tell me the recent working condition of the phone and the final asking price so that i can arrange for the payment from my bank to your account.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks and hope to hear from you soon.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It is a pretty scary world out there right now, a few months ago my entire banking account was hijacked and wire transferred to a bank in Jakarta, Indonesia. But that story will have to be on another post. Don’t worry, it is a good one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just sold my previous (4th) iPhone on eBay for about $200 (covering the cost of my upgrade to a new iPhone). Along the way I got a handful of email phising scams trying to get me to end my auction and sell the phone directly. The best one was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-internet","category-my-life","category-the-world-outside"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactivehank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}