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black list
good evening, I'm from Greece, I bought a mobile iphone 8splus from ebay , and I looked it up, it's on a black list
That means it's lost, stolen or has an outstanding balance and the only person who can fix this is the owner of the phone who reported it lost or stolen and if there's an outstanding balance, pay it off.
Many phones in the US are sold by carriers on liberal monthly payment schemes and are insured. Some people stop making payments of claim the phone was stolen and sell it having received a replacement phone from insurance. In these cases the carrier blacklists the phone. People in the US are very cautious about buying used phones because of this.
