Not sure where to post this, but let's say hypothetically you happen to find a brand new, unlocked iphone in a dumpster. This happened to someone I know recently. I don't know all the details, but basically they were doing work on someone's rental property, remarked they had broken their phone, and the owner of the rental property said a previous tenant had left some things behind and one of them being an unopened shipping box that had sat there for months. When he finally decided to throw all the previous tenants stuff out, he opened the box and found the iphone, although he said the box was in someone else's name, not his previous tenant. The owner couldn't contact the previous tenant and so decided to throw it out and so they went and fished it out of the dumpster. The phone works as well as you'd expect a brand new iphone would.
The question is, is there any risk to having the phone deactivated later on if it gets reported stolen? Supposedly this phone was delivered to the rental property months ago and was abandoned, but the value is something like $800.
PS: I'm thinking the previous tenant either stole it from someone's porch or it got delivered by mistake and would have had insurance claim by whoever was the rightful owner originally.