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> Yes, there are potential other uses for a sim box but mostly they are used for VoIP purposes.

So you mean... like, these are the exit points into the "legitimate" telephone network for, say, those random MedAlert scam calls I keep getting from numbers scattered all over North America? Or if not, what does "VoIP" mean here exactly?

Somehow I've missed this entire phenomenon...





Bingo! And the call's been "verified by the carrier" because it came off the cell network from a purportedly valid SIM... but patched into a dodgy SIP connection back to the scammer.



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