Stop Cell Phone Trafficking

Stop Cell Phone Trafficking

TracFone and other prepaid mobile phone service providers have recently experienced a sharp rise in the sale of prepaid mobile phones that are never activated on their networks. The company believes that traffickers are acquiring large quantities of prepaid mobile phones with the intent to take those subsidies for themselves by unlocking, altering and reselling the phones. After unlocking these prepaid mobile phones, traffickers either ship them overseas or sell them in the U.S. This activity causes tremendous harm to consumers, who are the intended beneficiaries of the subsidies that are diverted by the traffickers.

Cell phone “runners” seen with hundreds of prepaid mobile phones.