Buyer taken for $1,000 by fake Apple badge on eBay

A vintage Apple employee badge on eBay was proven to be a brazen forgery — but not in time to prevent it being bought.

Faked vintage Apple Computer Inc. employee badge with a woman's photo, signature, and company logo, surrounded by other aged documents.
The fake employee badge as advertised on eBay

This isn’t the first time that someone has sold a fake related to Apple, but usually it’s hardware. Now an eBay seller auctioned off what he or she described as Steve Jobs‘s badge, but was for Sherry Livingston, employee #10 — or rather, it wasn’t.

It was first spotted by Mastodon user Eric Vitiello, who initially believed the eBay listing. However, the details of the badge and of the accompanying hand-drawn map of Apple’s office layout were then debunked.

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