RE: Prepaid cellphones: terrorist weapon or hot gray market item?

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

Number 3 is the most likely answer.  Americans like everything in nice
plastic packages, so #2 is probably not correct.

Richard 

-----Original Message-----
From: Drsolly [mailto:drsollyp () drsolly com] 
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 3:20 PM
To: Richard M. Smith
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: RE: [funsec] Prepaid cellphones: terrorist weapon or hot gray
market item?

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Richard M. Smith wrote:

> > > > Hell you can work less and earn more running drugs..
>  
> Selling drugs is illegal.
>  
> Fox News has a pretty good story on the Michigan arrests:
>  
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208129,00.html
>  
> This site lists 110 buyers of bulk Noika GSM phones from around the world:

>  
> http://importer.alibaba.com/buyeroffers/Nokia_Gsm.html
>  
> Richard
>  
> P.S. Extra credit question:  Why were the kids in Michigan separating out
> the AC adapters from the TracFones they were buying?
  
Here's three possible reasons.:

1. An Ac Adaptor is really a transformer plus electronics. There's lots of 
copper in transformers. You need copper to make the brass that you use for 
cartridge cases. Check their homes for a factory manufacturing ammunition 
and sending it to Afghanistan.

2. Or maybe they were planning to unbundle the sale, and sell the adapters 
separately. $25 for a phone, add $10 for p&p, $10 for adaptor, $10 for 
five years insurance ...

It's a marketing idea that is commonly used.

3. They were planning to export them to a country that uses different 
shaped power points and/or with different voltages.


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