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		bigiain 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Burner Phone 101 > In many countries you need a valid government ID document to activate a mobile service which means burners do not really exist in those places. Buying prepaid SIMs from tourists or foreign students returning home is a reasonable easy workaround for that - at least if you're the sort of person who meets and befriends those sort of people.

refurb 5 months ago [–]

At least where I live tourist SIMs are restricted to 2 weeks, then need to be converted to a local SIM (with ID requirements).

And anyone leaving would have their immigration status expire and the SIM is turned off then unless you provide some other proof of residence.

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