{"id":621,"date":"2023-04-28T17:51:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T17:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/?p=621"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:22:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:22:30","slug":"inside-the-world-of-tiktok-inspired-fake-airpods-scams-and-how-to-protect-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/2023\/04\/28\/inside-the-world-of-tiktok-inspired-fake-airpods-scams-and-how-to-protect-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the world of TikTok-inspired fake AirPods scams (and how to protect yourself)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9to5mac-default.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>If you were a teenager and somebody on the internet told you that you could make hundreds of dollars a week simply by dropping things off at the post office, you would listen. And that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening on TikTok as \u201chustling\u201d teens turn to drop shipping fake AirPods as a lucrative revenue stream. <\/p>\n<p>Head below for an in-depth look at the process, and Apple\u2019s tips for how to protect yourself\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"airpods,tiktok\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"878411\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2023\/04\/28\/fake-airpods-tiktok-viral-scams\/#more-878411\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were a teenager and somebody on the internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airpods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}