Unable to recover iphone

I have purchased a iPhone 4 from a well known auction site and it has been working reasonably well but every so often it would pop up a window stating there was no service and it would have to be restored. I have tried a few permutations that have been suggested on the net, i.e. put it into airplane mode and then switch back and then switch off and on. This worked a month ago but last week it went again, I have tried airplane mode but this time it has not come back. I have tried disconnecting the battery on a number of occassions but again no joy. During the restore, the screen would show the white timeline bar under the apple logo and when the white line reaches the other side of the logo it would fail with:
Can anyone please advise how I can break this cycle of not being able to restore the iPhone?
Sometimes the white timeline bar nearly reaches the end but another error message would pop up with an error code 16. I have tried numerous cables, updated all the software, restarted services. You name it I have probably done it.

You could start by googling the error and following the troubleshooting advice that's provided by Apple...
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3694#2
Configure your security software
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