My iPhone 5 is locked because the bill wasn't payed?

Long story short, I bought a sprint iPhone 5 off of craigslist.

Took it to sprint after getting a sprint sim card from the Apple store. Don't care what phone service I had at the … Show more

Honestly, get a new phone. Plus I highly doubt the phone is locked for that reason. You got it off Craig's list. You got fooled. Sorry man.

Thats a tough one. You seem smart.

They saw you coming (in other words you got ripped off). Sorry but that's the truth.

Lesson to learn is always check the Imei number before you buy a second hand phone and always get the previous owner of an iPhone to disable "find my phone" in settings before you buy. Otherwise don't buy a second hand phone buy new instead.

Imei number is a check to see if the phone is stolen or not.

Disabling find my phone allows the new owner to purchase new apps from the App Store using their own id. It would be stupid for a previous owner to give you their id because you could run up an enormous bill for them, so most refuse to do so and you're stuck with an almost useless phone.