IPhone 4 cant get a factory unlock

I bought this iphone on craigslist and am currently using it, I plan on traveling to the Philippines for a few months and wanted to unlock my iphone so I could use it over there, I called AT&T to see if they could unlock it, all I had to do was give them the emei number and wait 72 hours and restore the iphone with itunes, it sounded easy but it did not work.
after restoring the iphone there was a msg on itunes saying congratulations your iphone is unlocked, I was so happy to see this,but after setting up the iphone i find out that it is still locked, at this piont I made sure that I was running the latest verssion of itunes next I did a reset on the iphone befor restoring it, than I did the dfu restore where you hold both the home and power button then after ten seconds releasing the power button, with the same results,
I am very frustrated and would like some help

You do not.
There are no officially unlocked iPhones available in the US.
All GSM iPhones are carrier locked to AT&T.
All CDMA iPhones are carrier locked to Verizon.
Neither AT&T, Verizon, or Apple will unlock US sold iPhones under any circumstances.
In the future, try a search.  This has been asked and answered a few billion times.    

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