Man robbed in online classified scheme

Posted May 13, 2010 8:01 am.

This article is more than 5 years old.

One man thinking he was about to get an iPad, got robbed at gunpoint instead.

A man responded to an online classified ad for Apple’s new gadget and went to meet the supposed seller at a parking lot near 40th Avenue and Shaganappi Trail NW on May 5th.

Police tell the Calgary Sun that’s when two other men took out a gun and demanded cash from the would-be buyer.

He wasn’t hurt. Anyone with information is asked to called police.

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