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Hong Kong phone scams triple since real-name SIM card registration required (hongkongfp.com)

submitted 5 months ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Landslide7648@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

More likely Jane registers a SIM using her ID. She then sells it to Sally, who uses it to scam people online.

That would be my reading of that sentence. I’m just not clear if they propose to criminalise both Jane‘s and Sally‘s acts.