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For iPhones, if you have Find My turned on, you can’t activate the device without the iCloud password, unless the owner removes the device from their iCloud account. Which is what the scammers are trying to get her to do here.
Sorry. When I said "both," I meant Google and Samsung. Apple definitely has better security, ocassionally to an annoying extent.