8 Suckers Buy $1000 Worthless iPhone App

In its first 24 hours available, EIGHT people - six Americans and two from Europe - bought "I Am Rich," a seemingly useless iPhone application for $999.
Once downloaded, the app doesn't do much -- a red icon sits on the iPhone home screen like any other application, with the subtext "I Am Rich." Once activated, it treats the user to a large, glowing gem (pictured above). That's about it. For a thousand dollars. The app has since been removed from the App Store.
At least one buyer apparently thought it was a joke, posting "I saw this app with a few friends and we jokingly clicked 'buy' thinking it was a joke, to see what would happen. ... THIS IS NO JOKE...DO NOT BUY THIS APP AND APPLE PLEASE REMOVE THIS FROM THE APP STORE."

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