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by threeseed 2388 days ago
Not the thieves themselves but buyers.

Used to be very common for someone to buy an iPhone on eBay, realise it was activation locked and then see comments everywhere on how to remove it.

My guess is many of those people would end up just throwing the phone away.

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Hah.

I had the buyer of my stolen iPhone 8 on eBay contact me and say "Hey, it says this phone is yours - since you've probably already replaced it, can you help me unlock it so I'm not -also- getting ripped off?".

Pretty ballsy.

Maybe for a fee it's worth it.