Can Apple replace my bad imei number?
I recently bought an iphone 5s from Craigslist. Deleted the number of the guy and everything. I activated the Phone and it worked for like an hour, then it stopped. AT&T told me it was reported stolen. The ohone is in excellent condition. So if I try to replace it with apple will they?
well you are the definition of a DOPE!!! First of all if you bought an iphone on craigslist from someone and paid good money for it, there's no way you'd hand it in to the police!! you'd do axactly what omar142 did and contact AT&T to find out what was going on (just to add if he robbed the phone theres no way he would of contacted AT&T). wishing bad luck on people... well who are you to talk about karma. i work for a network carrier company and the amount of people this happens to is unfair. Person who owns the iphone takes out insurance on it. Waits a few weeks hands it to a friend to sell. As soon as its sold the owner reports it stolen and claims a new iphone. And the poor person who bought the phone is left with a brick. Big scam here in the UK
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