Comment on Why are wrong numbers so common in the US?

• Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In Australia when you register a simcard you have to provide a drivers licence. As I understand it in the US you can just buy a simcard thats valid for X days or X call value whichever comes first. No ID required.

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait, you don’t have prepaid SIMs? That’s wild.

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    • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah but they still require some form of ID to register the sim before it can be used.

      Its hardly a foolproof system because you just need to key in a drivers licence number, but theres a name or company associated to every number.

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  • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh holy shit this makes so much sense… I’m also Australian and I’ve always wondered how a prepaid sim would help drug dealers in TV shows and movies and such because I just never thought that requiring ID to activate any sim card might not be a thing elsewhere

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• bstix@feddit.dk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The ones you buy in supermarkets for burner phones.

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