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Buying a used iPhone? Here’s an easy way to check whether it was stolen …

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/consumer-page.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1000&h=500)</div><p>Nobody wants to risk buying a stolen item. Even if you leave aside the morality issue, buying stolen devices creates a market for further thefts. And with iPhones, a stolen device will be rendered useless by a combination of Activation Lock and blocks by carriers.</p>
<p>Wireless trade body CTIA has now created a free online tool to allow anyone to instantly check whether a phone is registered as lost or stolen …</p>
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