Comment by 4gotunameagain
3 days ago
> which means burners do not really exist in those places.
This is very wrong. In Germany you can go to any shady kiosk in a big city and buy a pre activated SIM card invariably registered to some Arabic or Pakistani name.
You can buy it in cash. Completely untraceable if you take care of CCTV.
IMEI + cell tower triangulation easily makes it traceable. If the authorities want to find you, they can.
Once they know to look for you, sure, which is why you use a disposable phone and actually dispose of it before anyone has a reason to look for that specific one. That’s literally the whole point.
They might go an ask Achmed some hard questions later, but he’s long since left the country and never met you anyway.