Mobile SIMs procured with fake documents create new risk for security agencies. In almost 99 per cent of such cases, sources from the state police said, the actual person in whose name the mobile SIM is registered is not even aware that someone else is using that SIM. The pre-activated mobile SIMs registered in the names of any existing third party are being sourced because of the involvement of some errant local mobile service dealers. When a genuine customer comes to purchase a SIM from them by furnishing photocopies of their genuine identity documents, such dealers retain an extra photocopy of such documents. The dealer then pre-activates another SIM in the name of the original and then sells the same SIM at a premium cost to any third person. The SIMs are being sold to illegal Bangladeshi immigrants coming to India during their hiding period at the bordering villages before they are sourced with fake Indian identity documents. They are being used by the errant dealers to get multiple SIM cards in the same name. They also conduct a forgery while taking biometric imprints of the genuine consumers.
