Re:Preventing the use of SIM farms for fraud: consultation
by costco on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:28AM
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The interesting thing is despite the rules governments in countries like India or Ghana with strict registration laws will routinely find 3000 SIM cards on raids on simbox operators.
Re:Preventing the use of SIM farms for fraud: consultation
by toomuchtodo on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:32AM
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Who are these SIMs being registered to in these operations?
Re:Preventing the use of SIM farms for fraud: consultation
by costco on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:49AM
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Destitute people or a carrier employee is bribed to activate the SIM cards without registration.
Re:Preventing the use of SIM farms for fraud: consultation
by grantla on Saturday May 06, 2023 @12:19PM
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From experience in other EU countries, registering SIM-card registration helps exactly nothing. The biometrics also won't help.
Re:Preventing the use of SIM farms for fraud: consultation
by wkat4242 on Saturday May 06, 2023 @01:51PM
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Of course it doesn't. Especially with the low roaming costs inside Europe. Just grab one in another country and use that. It's purely theater. This is why it's so annoying.
My current provider Orange even requires me to re-ID at their shop periodically now :(
https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/sim-card-regist...
> The majority of national governments (around 160) require mandatory SIM-card registration, which means you need your real name and personal details to sign up for phone service. And just under 20 of these also require biometrics, e.g. your fingerprints or a facial scan, with eight more countries in the process of implementing such requirements.
The biometrics part is unnerving to be sure, but anonymous SIMs or DIDs are incompatible with fraud and spam fighting efforts. If you terminate bad actors, they’ll just keep spinning up more resources.