eBay Scam: Selling iPhones with Flappy Bird pre-installed is bogus

Known by the fact, the vintage smart phone game Flappy Bird has been pulled off from the app stores recently. This news got a lot of concerns from the Flappy Bird lovers all over the world. In a very short period, this news has spreaded to every nook of the internet world and finally turned into madness.

Internet scammers took advantage of this hype and started selling iPhones for high rates claiming that they have the last copy of the game pre-installed on the handset. You won't believe me if I say that I found an iPhone with Flappy Bird installed is set or sale for $8000 on eBay. You can found some similar sales on eBay with more than $2500 which totally doesn't worth buying in fact.

If it is highly wanted, why shutdown?

Think a while, if the game is that much wanted by the people, why it is shutdown? Sounds suspicious right? let's dig out facts,

If you observe the seller's feedback, you would caught them scamming red-handed. There you can find hardly 1-3 feedback messages from the buyers. Those too look like a trap to manipulate the victim. Take a look at the screenshot below.

If wanted, you can play Flappy Bird on your browser too

Yes! an HTML5 version of this game was released with in the hours of it's dismissal. Amfas Tech has already posted about this on Facebook earlier.

Post by Amfas Tech.