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Why did this customer buy 14 of these prepaid phones?

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Originally posted by: BriGy86
my friend works as an AP at a store and has to monitor how many of some perticular phone people buy

i guess terrorists are useing them as bomb detenators?
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Haha.... Yes, because limiting customers to two phones each will prevent terrorists from using them as bomb detonators. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: BriGy86
my friend works as an AP at a store and has to monitor how many of some perticular phone people buy

i guess terrorists are useing them as bomb detenators?
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Haha.... Yes, because limiting customers to two phones each will prevent terrorists from using them as bomb detonators. 🙂
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im not the one that made the rule, ask the store/homeland security

and if one guy is comming back and buying them repeatedly, it sends up a flag and they watch that person more closely i guess
 
Are they used?

Maybe she is reselling them? The typical used tracfone is useless without tracfone service, and there is no unlocking to them. But supposedly some people flash the firmware of tracfones so they can be used on any network. I've read posts by people that claim to do this and polish it off by changing out the tracfone faceplate, and make money reselling them.

I don't know the significance of those 2 particular models, other than they're both GSM (and 2 of the cheapest GSM offered by tracfone I think).
 
Originally posted by: BriGy86

im not the one that made the rule, ask the store/homeland security

and if one guy is comming back and buying them repeatedly, it sends up a flag and they watch that person more closely i guess
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Oh I know you didn't make the rule, it's just silly is all. 🙂 You only need one phone to detonate a bomb anyway.
 
Originally posted by: Malak
Assuming they were to be used purely for illegal use would be very wrong. You have no idea their intentions, and accusing them without knowing anything only makes you a fool.
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:thumbsup:

 
The company I work for has previously bought 50+ prepaid phones at a time, for temporary use by employees...
 
Originally posted by: OfficeLinebacker
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
The company I work for has previously bought 50+ prepaid phones at a time, for temporary use by employees...
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TERRORIST!
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hahahaha

The few people here that know what company I work for would find that hilarious 😛
 
Did you ask to see their ID, and compare the ccard signature with the one on their ID? If not then you may have allowed ccard fraud to happen. It's easy to copy the signature on the back of the card when signing the slip, harder to make a fake ID to match up to it. Enjoy the chargeback.
 
maybe a plane landed on the building she works in and she's designated as the person to buy those phones so that staff can stay in contact?

don't always ASSume the worst...
 
Originally posted by: FreshPrince
maybe a plane landed on the building she works in and she's designated as the person to buy those phones so that staff can stay in contact?

don't always ASSume the worst...
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EGGsactly! Cos I have heard of many instances in the United States lately where a plane has landed on a building in the past, oh, 3 months or so?


 
Originally posted by: Sphexi
Did you ask to see their ID, and compare the ccard signature with the one on their ID? If not then you may have allowed ccard fraud to happen. It's easy to copy the signature on the back of the card when signing the slip, harder to make a fake ID to match up to it. Enjoy the chargeback.
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I think that would be a violation of the agreement bmacd's employer has with the CC company. So while he may have allowed CC fraud to occur (probably not), it's on the CC company now. 🙂
 
um... just say this story on engadget and thought of this thread.

link


Wal-Mart employees expose terror cell's bulk phone purchase
Posted Jan 13th 2006 6:45PM by Evan Blass
Filed under: Cellphones

Unfortunately, terrorists always seem to be one step ahead of our defenses when it comes to weaponizing modern technology, from using airplanes as missiles to re-purposing shoes into wearable bombs. Well thankfully some alert retail employees across the country have been notifying law enforcement about bulk purchases of prepaid cellphones (which can be used, as in the 2004 Madrid train bombings, for remote detonation), in one case actually cluing the FBI into a suspected terror cell. After the December 18th purchase of 60 prepaid handsets by six Middle Eastern gentlemen, Midland, TX Wal-Mart employees decided to call the local po-po, who turned the case over to the Feds when the men began acting shady in custody. The six were later linked to a Metroplex-based sleeper cell, and are most likely enjoying the company of some "outsourced" foreign interrogators right about now. Seems like Wal-Mart's minimum-wage army may actually be just as adept at crimefighting as the "highly-trained" G-Men, which either says a lot for Sam Walton or not so much for J. Edgar.
 
Very ironic this thread comes back. The customer purchased another 7 phones today. I didn't have the chance to confront her, but it was paid as a cash transaction.

-=bmacd=-
 
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