How to find the original owner of a an icloud locked Mac

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  • Win Me
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    • Jan 2021
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    • France

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    How to find the original owner of a an icloud locked Mac

    Hello, I have a MacBook Air 2018 that I bought broken, managed to fix it but there is an icloud account on it. Tried to message the eBay seller, he told me that he doesn't know the password of the icloud because it is not his computer and he boughts this computer from an auction with multiple other computer. So my question is, can I maybe contact the original owner of the Mac to request him to remove his account! Because the email adress is hidden on the activation locked page.
  • SluggerB
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    • Aug 2020
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    Re: How to find the original owner of a an icloud locked Mac

    It's an old video but maybe it still works?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVB9Fcr4S-0

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