A judge in Israel has ruled in favour of a landlord who said that he was misled by the emoji used by prospective tenants in a message about his property.

A couple in Israel had to pay a landlord $2000 because of this emoji filled text.

Yaniv Dahan posted an advert for his home on the classified site Yad2, and got a message from Yarden Rosen suggesting that she and her partner Nir Haim Saharoff would be interested in taking it.

Dahan took the property off the market, but after more messages, and getting to the stage where they were talking about exchanging contracts, the couple stopped replying to his messages.

Yep, they ghosted him.

Dahan took Rosen and Saharoff to the small claims court, citing a message about the house with a specific emoji chain as evidence.

Basically, getting trigger-happy on the emoji cost them big time.

And guys – don’t ghost people in business.

Glamour