Originally Posted by
Steve M
A few years ago, a little girl was kidnapped, and the perpetrator used a pre-paid cellphone to continually call the parents and the police were frustrated that they had no way of knowing who he was based on the mobile phone number, so they passed this stupid law.
Another reason is prepaid cell phones had been widely used for remittance fraud.
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