Apple Pickers: What tricks do thieves have to steal your iPhone?
The new iPhone 5 is displayed during an Apple special event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on September 12, 2012 in San Francisco, California.
Photographer: (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Posted: 11/09/2012
Look out! Thieves have their eyes on something you carry with you every day.
It’s not your watch.
Or your wallet.
It’s your iPhone!
Channel 7’s Tom Wait is busy working on the story right now. He’ll expose some of the tricks and scams used by “Apple pickers” to get your phone.
And you’ll hear what police are saying you can do to make sure you don’t become a victim.
Watch Tom’s story Monday night on 7 Action News at 11.
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