Spain cuts off 3 million prepaid cards (with €25m credit)

[RTuesday]

Originally Posted by MATHA531

But at least the US, at least at this writing, does not mandate registration of prepaid sims; at least not to the best of my knowledge. (of course, many US carriers do not use gsm and hence there are no sims).

It's still possible to buy (for example) a 7-11 Speakout (phone + sim), where available, for cash - so not only is the sim not registered, there's no way to track the phone. A recent fraud case in NY alleged the people involved had a desk drawer full of "burners" - untraceable prepaids.

In Mexico the plan is to require registration and fingerprints for all prepaid users by next April. I'm not aware there is any system in place to gather the fingerprints yet.