Many years ago I worked for a telco that had a mobile product that you could buy with cash (show up in a convenience store with cash and you would get a SIM card for use straight away without any form of registration).
This was 5 times as expensive compared to when you paid by debit or credit card.
This offering was extremely popular amongst drug dealers and people needing a burner to call in a bomb threat. (Maybe there were legislate uses too - I never found out.)
The problem for the telco was that this was generating hundred fold the number of request for wire tapping and logging by the courts and the police. And by law the telco was required to service these request free of charge.
So in the end the business simply wasn’t there even though the margins were sky high.
Moral of the story: selling stuff to criminals might seem like easy money but may not be worth the trouble.
This was 5 times as expensive compared to when you paid by debit or credit card.
This offering was extremely popular amongst drug dealers and people needing a burner to call in a bomb threat. (Maybe there were legislate uses too - I never found out.)
The problem for the telco was that this was generating hundred fold the number of request for wire tapping and logging by the courts and the police. And by law the telco was required to service these request free of charge.
So in the end the business simply wasn’t there even though the margins were sky high.
Moral of the story: selling stuff to criminals might seem like easy money but may not be worth the trouble.