[Fagottino89]

That's for sure that if they want they can, just considering how is done IOS, they can easily just brick the phone if they want without even blacklisting the IMEI.

In the meanwhile I SEd two iphone recently; we will see if I get the same email and what will happen because so far I did not get any of this and both phones are being used

What method did you use ?

I EBd both but used different approach les; refund on one and replacement on another that was then legit returned for a refund. This was just recently. I hope not to get any email like this