The law in my country says that nobody can purchase and use a simcard without id verification.
But there are still kiosks and stores where you can buy prepaid simcards ready to go-plug and play.
(Not good looking stores but still stores if you know what i mean.)
So the simcards i talk about are allready id veryfied by the seller of the simcard. I think this is against the law but everybody (in certian areas) is doing it and they dond hide it eather. They have big announcements in they'r shop window like "10 bucks 20gb sim cards"
But in a notmal good looking phone store, it is not possible to get a simcard without personal id verification. If you try you will see, that it is as impossible as asking this question on reddit. They will just look at you and think wtf. No way. I don't even listen to what you asked for. I heard two words and thats enough. It's clear that this is against all guidelines an rules.not in our house mr.
Anyway:
So this is the deal you pay and you get a sim card that is registered with the id of somebody else. If you look up your data in the carriers webside you find some persons name and an address in your city. Besides that, there is no other way of getting an anonymous prepaid simcard in this country. Many people are buying this sim cards and i think they all could be in danger.
If i buy a prepaid simcard, the seller could do what ever he wants with that card before he sells it to me. To me it sounds like buying an pc wich is already set up with no option to factory reset. Or to buy a fake iphone from china with a ready to go appleID embeddet in the os.
Remember if you buy one of this simcards you get just the plastic with no further packaging.
I think this is a big surface for all kind of attacks
I think the sellers of the simcards have all the information they need to compromise everybodys accounts on various plattformss like whatsapp signal and facebook. Basicly everything with a number verification and without the use of 2FA
What are the possible dangers of these kind of sim cards?
What can the sellers do, if they want?
Edit: what inknow is that you get spam on whatsapp and signal even if you keep the number by yourself. Even phonecall spam. So i think they sell thesebnumbers at least, - to scammers. Or they are the scammers themselves.