There was at least one SIM farm which was installed in a delivery type van and driven around. This was to avoid being detected as a stationary device.

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jacquesm 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Clever! Also far more risky because it would require near constant attention.

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pavel_lishin 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Plus, you can leave an apartment unattended - a van being driven has a big weak link in the chain that has to push the gas and brake pedals.

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avianlyric 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Nothing stopping you from parking the van and just moving it every few hours. Put a some plumbing decals on the side and nobody will look twice at it.

	▲	pavel_lishin 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, but again - you gotta have one of your low-level chumps stop by the van every so often, and that raises the chances of that chump getting caught and squeezed by the cops until names start coming out.

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mschuster91 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

An unattended apartment can raise red flags. A van however, in most jurisdictions even if you end up in a police checkpoint, they may not force you to reveal what is in your van.

	▲	pavel_lishin 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> An unattended apartment can raise red flags. The last three places I've lived, I'd never seen the residents of fully half the apartments on my floor. They could have been jam packed with SIM farms, or abandoned tigers, or dead hookers in chest freezers for all I or anyone else in the building knew or cared about. An apartment where nobody bothers their neighbors or the super, but keeps the rent checks coming, is the absolute best case scenario for everyone involved. And again - if an unattended apartment is raided, there's nobody there to drop names. You lose the investment, but that's likely a lesser problem than worrying about what Kasim is going to tell the cops once the handcuffs go on.

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toast0 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Put the sim farm stuff in a non-metalic box, wired to the 12v system, earn some extra money while driving a delivery job.

Assuming you have carrier diversity on your sims, you could likely manage good enough backhaul over the sims for the control layer. At least for grey market SMS; grey market voip might need more consistent networking. Grey market VPN, eh... variable conditions might help customer traffic be considered mobile.

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monerozcash 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sim farm or SMS blaster? SMS blaster in van would make more sense, detecting a moving sim farm would be easier than a stationary one.