Scammer sell postpaid plan iPhone 13 to me and got scammed

They can blacklist the phone anytime they want. I certainly would if I lost my phone. If you've been scammed, you've been scammed and no one can help you. You should turn the phone over to the authorities and learn from this bad buying decision.

Asking hypothetical questions about what someone might do is pointless.

If the phone was originally purchased on contract, and the original purchaser reneges on their contractual obligation, then the device will most likely be blacklisted.

If you know you got scammed, have you reported it to the police?

Rit can be that the sim card gets blocked if it is reported stolen, and the original owner might be able to lock the iPhone via find my

kurtgav wrote:

I bought a 1-week-old iPhone from a scammer, and the police caught it. The scammer just bought it from the person who bought it (who literally bought it on Smart Postpaid, and the person who bought it is paying for installment), and the scammer said he fully paid to use it for scamming some people like me, and I’m scared that the phone will be blocked by Smart Postpaid or Apple. My question is, if the scammer tries to manipulate the person who just bought the smart postpaid iPhone and cuts his installment, will my phone be blocked or just his postpaid plan and sim card? (The scammer got released.)

Have you considered that if the scammer said that "he fully paid to use it for scamming some people like [you]", he might have been only partially truthful? I.e., the scammer was telling the truth about wanting to scam some people like you … but not about buying that iPhone from the person who originally bought it?

A scammer would be just as happy to sell you a lost or stolen phone if he or she thought they could get away with that. They'd sell you an Activation Locked phone if they realized that they had a stolen "brick" but believed that it was possible to pull the wool over your eyes. There is no honor among many of these thieves.

Scammers are scum, which is why you have to be very careful when buying a used iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

You may want to review:

The All Too Common SAD Reality of Buying a Used iPad/iPhone – Apple Community