IPhone activation lock problem please help

My friend has bougth an iPhone 5 with iOS 7 through OLX . OLX is a website like craiglist where people buy there products directly to sellers.
iPhone 5 when he bougth was good and was in working condition. He bougth it yesterday.But suddenly in the nigth he got a maessage that "message from iPhone owner that your iPhone is lost " and the iPhone has been stuck in the activation lock and is asking for the apple id of the consumer and the owner of th phone from whome he has bougth has stopped responding.
Please help him to get out of this problem .I have bougth ut by paying full price is there any way apple will help me in this issue or is there any way i can activate my iPhone.
Please help. Thnak you.

I also bought a used iPhone5 from the market here in Pakistan. The original user hasnt removed the device from his/her iCloud. I had to restore my phone because of some problem and now im stuck at the activation lock. I dont know the iCloud ID of the original user(that could be helpful in order to contact the user) and obviously I dont know the password aswell. So now my $855 worth device is useless. Ive been waiting for three months for some solution but all in vain. APPLE!!! PLEASE help me out here.

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