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- ItsTactical Burner phones are prepaid cell phones specifically purchased to be used briefly and then replaced. Some people might consider burner phones something only criminals use
- Wikipedia A prepaid phone specifically purchased to be used briefly and then replaced is known colloquially as a burner phone or burner.
- Terror group members routinely use untraceable SIM cards.
April 17, 22 2014 Dean Beckford UMass Bomb Threat Dean Beckford, a 29-year-old senior at University of Massachusetts Boston was charged April 22 with two counts of making a bomb threat. In both incidents, a call was received at about 12:45 p.m. at a dean's office in Wheatley Hall, the target of the threats, claiming an imminent danger of an explosion in the building. Both times, police evacuated the building and performed a search with bomb squads. Police tracked calls from pay phones outside two train stations and then used surveillance video to identify the suspect
2000 students locked down April 16, 2014 Shae Quam Najee Watson Arrested for Liberty High School Burner Phone Threat In Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, there is a lockdown at Liberty High School after a called in bomb threat. He is charge three counts of threats and two on false alarms. On May 7, 2014 Shae Quam Najee Watson is arrested for buying burner phone to call in threats to Liberty High School in Pennsylvania. Officials were unsure of his motive, but another man used a disguise when he bought the "burner" untraceable cellphone an hour before the call was placed at a Walmart. Watson had been arrested in April 2013 charged with drunken driving without a licence, and sentenced to a program for first-time offenders and community service. Reports of shots fired and a gunman were called called in. Over 2,000 people were affected, not counting police and parents who responded.
March 22, 2014 Probe into mystery call to captain of Malaysia airline flight The captain of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 received a two-minute call shortly before take-off from a mystery woman using a mobile phone number obtained under a false identity. Investigators are treating it as potentially significant because anyone buying a pay-as-you-go SIM card in Malaysia has to fill out a form giving their identity card or passport number.it had been bought ‘very recently’ by someone who gave a woman’s name – but was using a false identity. The discovery raises fears of a possible link between Captain Zaharie, 53, and terror groups whose members routinely use untraceable SIM cards. The fact the SIM card was registered to a non-existent ID card does not necessarily indicate a criminal or terrorist connection. Political activists in Malaysia sometimes use SIM cards bought with bogus identity cards if they fear that their phones may be bugged by the country’s authoritarian ruling party. (Dailymail)
2011 The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West Mitchell D. Silber Internet cafés, phone calls from kiosks, and untraceable phone cards were the methods of communication for Rashid Rauf [of Al Qaeda].
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