A young Aussie has sparked outrage over a confrontation with an angry stranger in Kmart after his prank backfired terribly.
The prankster from Adelaide filmed himself approaching an older man with dreadlocks before the exchange escalated.
In the underwear section of the store, the teen approached the customer and asked him for the time on his phone.
As the man pulled out his phone, the teen reached over and pretended to tap the customer’s phone while playing a recording of the Apple Pay sound.
In a clip shared on TikTok, viewers could clearly see the teen was simply playing a pre-recorded sound.
But the shocked customer had no idea it was a prank and demanded what was going on.
‘What are you doing there?’ he asked as he stormed towards the prankster.
The teen repeatedly apologised as he tried to back away as the furious man demanded to hand over his phone.
‘Nah, give me that phone right now,’ the man ordered said.
‘Can we just talk?’ the teen asked as the customer tried to snatch the phone away.
‘Chill, chill, you’re going to break my phone!’
His efforts to defuse the situation were unsuccessful.
‘What the f**k did you do to my phone?’ the angry man asked as he eventually snatched the prankster’s phone from him.
The clip then cut off and viewers didn’t see how the situation ended.
Apple Pay allows users to pay for items by hovering their Apple device over a payment terminal.
When a payment is completed, a distinctive noise rings out. However it’s not possible to exchange funds simply by tapping one phone against another.
A Kmart customer pictured) confronted a prankster after being tricked into thinking money had been stolen from him
The Apple Pay prank has been circulating on social media over recent weeks.
Viewers were quick to slam the exchange as ’embarrassing’.
‘Prank your mates if you have any not strangers trying to live their lives in peace,’ one wrote.
Another added: ‘What did you expect was gonna happen you pretend to take money from someone’s phone.. his reactions valid.
A third wrote: ‘This is a dangerous thing to do in Australia.’
Another viewer echoed: ‘Mate us Aussies are chill but we don’t play games.’
The prankster approached a stranger in the underwear section of a Kmart in Adelaide (stock)
Daily Mail Australia contacted Kmart for comment.
In a separate clip, the teen can be seen approaching another man and carrying out the same prank at a Woolworths.
On this occasion, the prankster told the stranger he had taken $20 from him before being chased through the supermarket.
