DAY 23 PHONE IN AIRPLANE MODE MISSING: Investigators are focusing their efforts on discovering who called the missing phone in airplane mode shortly before it went missing using a prepaid cellphone purchased with a false ID, Britain’s Daily Mail is reporting. According to the report published late Saturday night, “The missing phone in airplane mode received a two-minute call shortly before it went missing from a mystery woman using a mobile phone number obtained under a false identity.” The call was one of the last made to or dialed from the missing cellphone in airplane mode on the day it went missing now more than two weeks ago, the Daily Mail reported. “Investigators are treating it as potentially significant because anyone buying a pay-as-you-go [prepaid] SIM card in Malaysia has to fill out a form giving their identity card or passport number,” the British paper wrote. After the September 11th Al Qaeda attacks on the U.S., Malaysia instituted an anti-terrorism policy under which every purchased phone number is registered to an individual, the Daily Mail noted. When police tried to locate the person who called the phone in airplane mode, they instead arrived at a store that sells SIM cards in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. There, they learned it had been “very recently” purchased by an individual who gave a woman’s name, but was later discovered to have been using a false identity. The Daily Mail wrote, “The discovery raises fears of a possible link between The caller and terror groups whose members routinely use untraceable SIM cards. Everyone else who spoke to the phone in the hours before the phone in airplane mode went missing has already been interviewed.”
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:41:33 +0000
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