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What a flap: SIM swiped from slain stork's GPS tracker used to rack up $2,700 phone bill

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and used the SIM card for 20-hours of eye-watering phone calls.

The way this usually works is that the miscreant(s) are working in combination with an operator of a premium line in one of the countries in Africa and/or around the Carribean. Stolen SIMs and stolen VOIP credentials are loaded into a dialer and the bill gets to eyewatering levels in seconds.

That is where the 20 hours of non-stop calling come from. I suspect the stork(s) were targeted specifically because someone knew that the trackers contain a SIM.

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