The unidentified 21-year-old woman had negotiated to buy the phones on Gumtree, an
online
classifieds site.
"[B]e smart about what you buy," Upper Mt Gravatt Senior Constable Jess Hopkin said, according to the Herald Sun. "If something seems too good to be true, it probably is."
This is not even the first time an Apple fan has been fooled by a fraudster at a McDonald's. In 2011, a 22-year-old South Carolina woman bought a $180 iPad
that turned out to be a piece of wood. A pair of men she met in the fast-food restaurant parking lot had claimed to be selling the items in bulk.