Last phone I bought from Walmart, T-Mobile refused to activate because they claimed it was stolen.
I was really taken aback to have purchased a device in a sealed box when someone had already cloned the IMEI. (Or maybe T-Mobile's setup is just really buggy...)
I was fortunately able to return it and get a new phone, worked fine.
But if I could fix that problem, maybe stolen phones will just get laundered through returns that way. (ie, buy a new phone, return the stolen one as defective).
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Last phone I bought from Walmart, T-Mobile refused to activate because they claimed it was stolen.
I was really taken aback to have purchased a device in a sealed box when someone had already cloned the IMEI. (Or maybe T-Mobile's setup is just really buggy...)
I was fortunately able to return it and get a new phone, worked fine.
But if I could fix that problem, maybe stolen phones will just get laundered through returns that way. (ie, buy a new phone, return the stolen one as defective).