According to ABC News:

“My best version of talking as a girl as a flirty girl, I should say, is adding winky face emoticons,” Nirenberg said.

The mark took the bait, writing: “U wanna meet?”

When Nirenberg said he did, the target, thinking he was communicating with a buxom beauty, asked, “Will you kiss me?”

Nirenberg coyly responded, “Well … I don’t have a boyfriend.”

They made a plan to meet up at Nirenberg’s Brooklyn apartment for a date.

Sounds dicey. As all women know, you NEVER invite a strange dude you meet on the Internet to your place on the first date. But Nirenberg was prepared.

The man with Nirenberg’s iPhone showed up in a nice jacket, smelling of cologne, and had a bottle of wine, Nirenberg said.

“I followed him up the stairs and he turns around and, basically, I confront him right here,” Nirenberg said. “I put the $20 in his hand to defuse the situation as fast as possible, but I had a hammer in my hand just in case."

A hammer? Luckily, the guy returned the iPhone. But as this news footage makes clear, this is NOT something to try at home. (Or apartment.)