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Clever man tricks dumb thieves

A 22-year-old man prevented his iPhone 6 from being stolen when he tricked three thieves into taking a 5,000 South Korean won banknote worth about $4 instead of the smartphone. The man, surnamed Wu, met the three last week while playing with his phone in his car parked along a roadside in Wenzhou. When they tried to steal his phone, he convinced them that the South Korean note was a euro note and they stole that instead. After the three left, Wu phoned police for help, leading to the robbers' arrest.