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Comment by 2rsf

6 months ago

Isn't buying a SIM traceable by itself? if for example the shop has CCTV recordings or the email where you got the eSIM

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bigiain  6 months ago

Normally, unless (as I mentioned in another reply) you buy your SIM at a going-away party for a foreign student or backpacker who's leaving the country and doesn't need a local mobile number any more.

(Then you just need to worry about the CCTV recording of the place where you pay cash tor the pre paid Visa cards you use to top up the prepaid SIM...)

  • jajko  6 months ago

    That would be properly dumb thing to do, giving trivial-to-track thing very much tied to your identity to some random folks... why on earth would anybody smart ever do that?

    Then you suddenly end up locked by ICE or worse when having layover stop at Miami for example.

    • bigiain  6 months ago

      > why on earth would anybody smart ever do that?

      Because they're leaving the country tomorrow and don't plan on ever coming back. And you offered them a round of drinks or two for them and their other friends.

      (Thinking about it, you're probably right - I still feel that's "safe" in Australia, I doubt I'd be prepared to do that in 2025 USA. But then I'm not intending to visit the USA in the near/medium term future, or possibly ever again.)

    • fuckaj  6 months ago

      Basic police work gets you. They know the sim owner. Know its a backpacker. Find their last location. Interview who was there at the party. Etc.

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