Originally Posted by
LAX_Esq
Plenty of suckers still "rent" international phones (or at least I assume they do because companies offering international phones for rental are still aplenty). So, it wouldn't exactly be rare for someone to be traveling with a clean phone.
As others said, the phone itself isn't going to raise suspicions. He'll raise suspicions if there are other reasons that would give the authorities alarm.
Agreed with this. Very common to bring in an international rental phone without much info.