Why a SIM card is akin to a passport, history of losses

Hello.

There were several stories about SIM cards and how they were issued to loved ones, and

most importantly, what happened next.How many times he repeated in various materials that it is necessary to issue SIM cards exclusively for himself, but people ignore this wish, especially when it comes to loved ones. And here are a few stories that prove the need to issue a SIM card exclusively for yourself and no one else.

Close relationships, love and ... breakup

The girl is sitting in the office of the operator, where no one has been for a long timedoes not come in person, usually all issues are resolved by phone. An open space, you can’t help but hear a conversation in which she convinces an operator employee that she has been paying for a SIM card on her own for the past five years, can prove this, after all, even auto-payment is set up for her bank card. In the hands of the iPhone, there is a printout, which she shakes in the air: look, here is my phone, there is a SIM card inside, it works for me all the time. Do you understand that this is idiotic? I already use your connection, I pay more than others.

The monologue seems endless, in five minutesthe whole life of this glamorous girl becomes clear. Perm, a happy meeting, and now she is already in Moscow with her beloved. The iPhone appears, other blessings of civilization, a SIM card is included, the young man bought it along with the phone, he even chose a beautiful number.

Several years have passed, love has ended, shewent to another. More precisely, she had to go to another, as the young man received a printout of her calls and SMS, from which he learned about the existence of that very other. The girl raises the degree of aggression, breaks into a scream and promises to sue the operator for divulging details of her private life.

In response, she hears what the employee says inbranded T-shirt: “Dear Xenia, unfortunately, you are not the owner of the number and you are using it illegally. You can write another statement about changing the owner of the number, but the answer will be exactly the same. You need to come to any office of the company with the owner of the number, so that he writes an application for reissuing a SIM card, there is no other way now.”

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I didn’t watch Shakespeare’s passions, it waspity the time. The attitude to the SIM-card as something not very important is in our blood. The passport is important, but the SIM card is secondary, and at any time you can do something with it, but this, of course, is not the case. Even changing a SIM card without a passport is problematic, especially in recent years, when the number of thefts using fake powers of attorney has become prohibitively high. This is a way not only to steal someone else's number, but also to try to steal instant messengers, hack someone else's correspondence. Hence the constant tightening on the part of operators, they check each case of issuing SIM cards without the usual documents and often find that employees were guilty of one or another violation of job descriptions, and they are fired for this.

Regardless of your relationship here and nowyou need your SIM card, and it must be issued to you, of course, if you do not have problems with the law and do not have a passport as such. The primary SIM card cannot be issued to someone else. And this is in your interests, in the end, if the phone is lost or the SIM card breaks, it will be you who will need to get it as quickly as possible, and the one who bought it for you may not be around at that moment. But there are other stories as well.

Wayward daughter, character like her father

Family relationships are sometimes confusing.The girl graduated from high school, lives alone in her grandmother's apartment, her parents have been divorced for more than five years. Relations with the father, who left for another family, are practically absent. Attempts to establish communication turn into a complete failure, the father's number is blocked, each new number is sent to exactly the same black list. They say that she is completely in her father, the very case when she found a scythe on a stone.

And now the father remembers that he once boughtSIM card and it is issued on it. From threats that he will block the SIM card, the conflict quickly turns into a “do what you want, I don’t care” stage. But the girl feels sorry for her old tariff, it has unlimited Internet, and today such a tariff simply does not exist. It is impossible to re-register a SIM-card for yourself, the story is exactly the same as above. But the girl found another way out, she is stubborn.

At the operator's office, she tried to return hernumber but was denied. She proved that she uses a SIM card and at the same time is ready to refuse the operator, if she loses the number, she will choose someone else. As a result, at the operator's office, she was offered a new SIM card with a different non-public tariff, which more or less suits her. She has a new number, which is unknown to her father, now the SIM card is issued to her, and no problems await her in the future. It's amazing how relationships between the closest people can develop, although who knows what the closeness of parents and children is.

Renew your SIM card or you'll regret it! - Yes, you went ...

A classic of the genre, the girl got a SIM card ina gift along with a phone, she used it for a long time, but in the end she decided that she would be better off without a young man. He considered that the ungrateful bastard girl who used him did not want to solve her problems. The everyday situation, such dramas of a local spill happen all the time.

The girl turned out to be vindictive and offered to solveeverything is peaceful, or the former will have to regret. He waved off this threat and sent the girl on a walk, hung up. The girl turned out to be imaginative, some homeless people called from a push-button telephone that certain objects in the city were mined. Whose SIM card was inside? Yes, the same one. The girl washed her hands and said that she had nothing to do with this card, she lost it. But initially they came to her former lover, and he had an unpleasant conversation with people in uniform.

I cannot vouch that this story is true from andbefore, I heard it in different interpretations from the employees of one of the operators, and everything happened in one of the Russian regions. But the story itself is useful in that it shows the situation from a slightly different angle. The person to whom the SIM card is issued cannot give it to third parties, he violates the contract with the operator and at the same time is fully responsible for everything that happens. If the girl could spend a round sum in roaming, then all the claims would not be against her, but specifically against the former, since he is the owner of the number and bears full responsibility for it. And this is another reason why you need to reissue a SIM card or completely close it, and not keep it on your balance sheet if someone else uses it. It's potentially a ticking time bomb, and you don't know exactly when it might go off.

Enterprising grandmother and the inheritance case

Old women are proactive and fast.For example, the grandmother of my friends was able to get a SIM card for her granddaughter, as well as for her friend. Then they were small, parents are constantly at work. Almost ten years have passed, my grandmother died. A month after this mournful event, the girlfriend of the granddaughter ordered a SIM card to live for a long time. Friendship did not disappear anywhere and even got stronger, the girls even went together to the same faculty of Moscow State University.

What could be easier than a father's trip witha death certificate to the office of the operator in order to issue a SIM card for yourself, and then transfer it to your daughter's friend? What could go wrong in this story? Yes, literally everything.

The operator cannot issue the SIM card of the deceasedperson to the next of kin, such a SIM card can be used, but it will not work, since you are not the owner. Whether the girl was lucky or not, how to see that the SIM card had existed for about ten years and nothing had to be done with it. But the father could not immediately replace the SIM card, he had to prove that he was the heir! And only after that the operator could issue a new SIM card and do something with it. There is simply no other way today. And it also shows that our attitude towards the SIM card as something not worthy of attention is wrong. As long as we have our SIM card and it works, we don't think about potential problems. But when such problems find us, then we can do nothing and start running around in search of ways to solve them. As usual, all heavenly punishments fall on the heads of operators, although the latter only comply with the laws and largely protect their subscribers from various schemes that allow you to steal SIM cards and try to hack into a person’s digital life.

But there are still many SIM-cards issuedon companies, people buy them for profit, but they can’t manage them in any way. They believe that there will always be a seller and through him it will be possible to resolve all issues. Experience suggests that this is not the case in the long run. Therefore, please do not be careless, issue a SIM card only for yourself. When your children become adults, also transfer the SIM card to them or write a power of attorney to manage the operator's services, which is also possible and largely solves all problems.

Admit it, how many "foreign" SIM-cards do you have issued for your passport data? More than two?

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