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I'm not so quick to dismiss this. I mean, who would shell out twice as much for a phone that they could get at Walmart? It's not like that's some remote shopping experience. These phones are also sold in truck stops, other major retailers, and sometimes grocery stores. That part just doesn't make sense to me.
To the question of whether folks would notice white guys making such a purchase, I damned well hope so. There's plenty of home-grown crazies that know just enough to hurt a bunch of people.
And to the first indictment, as the article says, you don't have to register a name with tracfone, and the purchases were made with cash. It would take some serious effort to find out who made the purchases, had the clerk not made the call.
This may turn out to be a case of fear-mongering. God knows we've seen plenty of that in the last five years. Like I said, though, I'm not going to dismiss this out of hand.
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