Amazon is home to millions of products that you can get delivered within a day's notice, yet there's also plenty of items that are completely fake, and one YouTuber put them to the test to see quite how convincing they can be in public.
While the rise of online shopping has opened up the floodgates to the sheer number and variety of items that's available to the average person, you also have to always make sure that what you're buying is what it says it is.
Even the biggest online marketplaces on the internet are filled with fake items that you need to do your best to avoid, and whenever you're buying anything as popular as an iPhone or pair of Airpods then you need to make sure you're getting the genuine article.
While you might be able to spot them while browsing online, how easily would others be able to see through the lies? One YouTuber put that very concept to the test in a prank-filled video, and some items were more successful than others.
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MindSquire are known for their outlandish pranks on the video sharing platform, having recently infiltrated the KKK in an attempt to take it down from the inside, and they chose a number of different fake items on Amazon to see what they could achieve in the real world.
First up was a bunch of fake money, which they attempted to use to buy a bike from Facebook marketplace. This was actually successful, as the seller walked away without suspecting a thing, yet they thankfully pulled him back, gave him $200 of real money, and even let him keep the bike.
They also tried to use a fake university degree and birth certificate in different ways, with the former in a job interview and the latter to get free items. Unfortunately the degree didn't work its charms on the Taco Bell manager, but the birth certificate did manage to score over $25 worth of free stuff across various stores.
When attending a YouTube dating show one of the channel's hosts donned a body suit with a six pack in an attempt to woo the ladies, and while most of them weren't exactly convinced – although that might not have all been to do with the body suit – one woman did seem impressed, and even wanted to touch the abs.
What turned out to be less successful at this dating show though was a rigged die, which supposedly was engineered to land on six every single time. They set up a bet to have it land on this number, yet it only survived two rounds before three was shown, losing them quite a bit of money in the process.
The last two were perhaps the most intriguing and expensive though, as they attempted to sell a fake iPhone 16 and pair of Airpods on Facebook Marketplace, with one being more successful than the other.
Airpods are seemingly easy to fake, as the buyer in this instance had no idea they were purchasing something that cost a fraction of the real gadget's price, yet the lack of an Apple logo on the iPhone was a dead giveaway for the second buyer, and they refused to hand over the money.
Little did they know that they were in luck though, as both were given the real versions of the products they thought they'd be buying, and they got to keep their money too, making it an win overall despite the initial deception.