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LarryJoe33

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Jul 17, 2017
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Not sure where to ask this on an Apple forum, but I know my friends here might be able to give me some guidance.

I received a package at my house a few months ago addressed to someone else but with my address. I do get mail at times from prior residence and am familiar with the names. All junk mail. This one was to someone I never came across. I never opened it and forgot about it. Although I should have brought it to the post office, I didn't, and I opened it yesterday.

It's a brand new Galaxy S7 Edge from ATT. Has the Sim card punched out and assume it is in the phone. I am guessing by now (two months later), the person who it was supposed to go to at the correct address has sorted this out.

What are the chances this phone would activate with a different/existing sim? I am guessing the serial number or some sort of digital ID has it lost in the system (similar to stolen I guess)?
 
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