Where there's a popular product you better believe there will be people trying to cash in on it, even via less moral means.

Take the new iPhone 'application' created by one Armin Heinrich, which was available on the official Apple store site for a princely $999.99. Now any application that costs a grand, particularly one for a phone, better be damned good. But what does Heinrich's app do? Nothing at all. It just places an icon in among the others, of a gem, with the words 'I am rich' under it.

"The red icon on your iPhone or iPod touch always reminds you (and others when you show it to them) that you were rich enough to afford this,"

Although I don't know how many people actually bought this, I would not at all be surprised if anyone did.

Most are saying it's a scam, but it can't really be called as such when the statement above accompanies the product before purchase. I think it's the work of one smarty-pants who wants to mock the people with more dollars than sense who like to brag about their wealth.

What better way to brag than to say 'I'm so rich, I can afford to blow a cool 1K on an icon!"?

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