Used iPhone is connected to someone else's account?

I bought an iPhone forever ago, it wasn't restored, but now I just restored it, and it says I need the previous owner's apple ID, and I have absolutely no way of getting it. What else can I do?

Unfortunately there isn't much you can do. Maybe the Apple Store could help, but they likely wouldn't either cause from their perspective it looks like you got a lost/stolen phone.

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