An old invoice doesn’t necessarily indicate current ownership. I have the invoice of pretty much everything I’ve purchased in the past decade (I scan in anything physical), including for a lot of items that I no longer have ownership of.

Unfortunately, except for the invoice, all of the other evidence pointed to the blogger _not_ being the current owner.

In this blog posts scenario, the user has the device and the receipt, but the device is locked to another iCloud account. Is that sufficient here?

What stops me from selling my laptop anonymously, robbing it from the person I sold it to, then having Apple unlock it?

I know it seems a weird case, but there are some pretty wild and convoluted scams out there, and this is pretty tame in comparison.

So if I have your receipt I get access to your device?

If you have the receipt, and ID showing your picture and the name under which I ordered the device, and can receive physical mail at the address to which the device was shipped, and/or at the address listed on the cloud account that we both know the device effectively forced me to create, then yes.

> at the address listed on the cloud account

From my reading of the post, this piece is missing. The blogger doesn’t recognize the iCloud account _currently_ associated with the device.

If you have access to the apple ID that paid for a device, sure, why not.