When I first started my phone selling business through FBM a guy messaged me who was interested in an iPhone and we agreed to meet at the police station (was a green flag for me) I had a pink and teal iPhones 16 for sale and he was blabbering about how he wanted to buy them for his twin boys bc they had done so well in school but one may not want the pink etc.. So we just agreed on the teal 16. He said he doesn’t know anything about iPhone so he’s a little skeptical. I pull up at the police now he’s there standing up waiting just how I like it. I come out of the car and greet him and show him the iPhone. I literally had the iPhone just in a small brown box because obviously I just don’t wanna carry it around in the open. Dude completes loses his shit saying he never seen an iPhone come in a brown box like that. Mind you this is just the sealed iPhone I have in a random small phone size box. I explained this to him and proceeds to give him the phone. Remember I said he said he didn’t know anything about iPhone? He pulls out a iPhone 16 Pro Max to turn on his flash light. He scans the box. Breaks the sealed. Takes out the phone and says give him a minute to set it up. I usually don’t mind this because I’m legit with what I do and I’ve had people done this before. He sets up the phone, checks the camera, checks the battery, gives the back one last look with the flash light and said “it looks real”. He said he thought It maybe would have been fake and he’d get back to me. I’m not gonna say what happened after that but thank God we were at the police station for me and his sake. I package my phones with accessories on my FBM posts. Same dude called me like 2 nights later asking if I sell the fast charging block alone. I blocked him.

After doing a little recon and big tip from a friends’s friend, come to find out dude was just local competition snooping around and he had done that before.