Man Lures Phone Thief With OK Cupid Date

Phone theft is on the rise, and many victims have little hope of recovering their stolen devices unless the thief makes an idiotic error like posting their photo onto the victim’s Facebook account. One Brooklyn resident and trombonist, Nadav Nirenberg,  was clever enough to take advantage of the thief’s technological ignorance.

Nirenberg lost his phone in a cab ride on New Year’s Eve. By the next morning, the thief had already started to use his device to send messages to girls on OK Cupid using Nirenberg’s account and photo.

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