What to do when Apple Support refuses help after fraudulent account access?

Help, the situation is this: scammers forced a friend to enter an apple account that was someone else's and blocked the phone. support wrote a refusal for no reason that they couldn't do this to me, in fact, I provided everything, receipts, everything I have, a box, and where it was even purchased, which account number was 1, when it was even activated.




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Posted on Jun 13, 2025 3:30 AM

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Jun 13, 2025 3:48 AM in response to SDemok

SDemok wrote:

Help, the situation is this: scammers forced a friend to enter an apple account that was someone else's and blocked the phone. support wrote a refusal for no reason that they couldn't do this to me, in fact, I provided everything, receipts, everything I have, a box, and where it was even purchased, which account number was 1, when it was even activated.


A box is not sufficient proof of ownership to convince Apple to remove Activation Lock.


I believe that what you need to have is a receipt from Apple or an Apple Authorized Reseller, with both your name and the serial number of the phone on it, showing that you are the original purchaser of the phone. It would be up to Apple as to whether they considered that acceptable, but anything less is likely to result in a refusal.


This is a user-to-user forum, and none of us have any control over whether Apple accepts Activation Lock removal requests. You cannot remove Activation Lock, we cannot remove Activation Lock – and we cannot force Apple to remove it for you.


One more thing.


Your "friend" should have had enough respect for your personal property not to log your phone out of your Apple Account, and into some random person's Apple Account, in the first place. If your "friend" said that they needed your car to drive to work, and you loaned it to them, and they turned around and loaned your car to some random stranger off the street, who then proceeded to steal the car, would you have considered that reasonable?

Jun 13, 2025 5:19 AM in response to SDemok

You never enter someone else's Apple Account into your device unless you are willing to turn control over to them. Not sure how a scammer could "force" your friend to do that, and it is more likely that they just fell for a scam that offered something they wanted if they would do that.


Since Apple does not get involved in third party sales, the receipt you provide should be from Apple or Authorized Apple Seller that includes the serial number of IMEI number of the device. The box means nothing. If the device has been placed in Lost Mode, you may be out of luck. An important lesson was learned.

https://al-support.apple.com/#/additional-support


There are many other types of scams, such as Gift Card Scams, email/message scams, Social Media scams and Apple Cash scam to name a few, and no matter how much information is provided about the scams or how often people are told not to fall for them, it still happens daily where people lose money or in your case lose access to your device. These scams only continue because people fall for them.

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