As somebody that picked up an old iPad from a thrift store where owner had not removed their account, factory refreshing it is a hard if not an impossible task.
Even the sketchy tools weren’t great, you could boot it to a state of new user use, but a power off and back on you are locked out again.
And they don’t give you enough of the previous users email to be able to track them down and say “Hey, either I found your stolen iPad, do you want it back, or can you remove your device from your apple ID”
As somebody that picked up an old iPad from a thrift store where owner had not removed their account, factory refreshing it is a hard if not an impossible task.
Even the sketchy tools weren’t great, you could boot it to a state of new user use, but a power off and back on you are locked out again.
And they don’t give you enough of the previous users email to be able to track them down and say “Hey, either I found your stolen iPad, do you want it back, or can you remove your device from your apple ID”
To be fair I don’t think the actual organizations doing this type of crime for a living are using sketchy tools they found online.