HCW is not chief of police.
How can a PAYG phone be traced?
If anyone has damning evidence on CB then why hasn't he been charged?
Yes, a PAYG, like any other mobile phone can be traced; it’s always been that way, too.
All telephone companies keep track of all their phones they sell and if police want intelligence from then the company is obliged to share that data.
All phones, regardless of whether they’re PAYG work off masts
And every phone contains at least one unique serial number, and sometimes might contain two or three or even more. They have IMEI too. Then there’s the SIM identity too...
So, all the time, whether you are making a call or not, your phone is “talking’” to phone masts and broadcasting this information. It is an easy thing for the telephone company and therefore the police to match a phone call you make or a text message you send with the phone you used and its location.
Police can ALSO trace where that phone/SIM/both were bought.
When you buy a phone, even if you pay cash for it, almost certainly the cashier in the store will scan it, and also scan not just its UPC code, but also its unique IMEI/ESN number code, too. And even if they didn’t, the company that supplied the phones to that retailer has a record of the IMEIs of all the phones they sold to each and every store worldwide.
Of course, you also leave another trace every time you top your phone up with additional credit...
There’s another thing as well. If you leave a voice message there is a recording of your voice somewhere (BB watches more than people realise) and that can start to be matched against other voice recordings “on file’” at various intelligence agencies which the police have privy to.
Another way of uncovering your identity is what else you used that phone for. What numbers did your phone number call? What numbers did you receive calls from? Which numbers did you send/receive text messages with? What types of websites did you visit? All the details of all your usage of that phone is stored and can be discovered by the police.
The police can even quickly do a data-filter search to find what other phones have followed you around! What other phones you have been close to, precisely when and how often...
Obviously, they’re only going to track/trace big criminals/suspects (such as CB) and people like, say, terrorists. But make no mistake: they can trace ANYONE. They’re not going to bother with some stupid troll, but if it is a serious matter such as suspected murder or a high-priority national security, then they can do all of this, and throw computing power at the problem like you wouldn’t believe.
So all this nonsense that CB could say it wasn’t his phone is utter rubbish.
He has left a trace whether he realises it or not.
I didn’t realise Hans Christian Wolton wasn’t chief of police, I wrongly thought he was. He certainly deserves to be one day — his determination and intelligence shines through!
