[Cthulhu_]

Wouldn't the network providers be able to detect those? I'm fairly sure they don't like their networks being abused either... or they don't really care because they get paid per connection.

edit: Actually this is what I'm getting increasingly angry about: providers and platforms not doing anything against bots or low value stuff (think Amazon dropshippers too) because any usage of their service, bots or otherwise, are metrics going up and metrics going brrt means profit and shareholder interest.

[ac29]

Its very possible they did detect it and that's why law enforcement got involved.

But yes, they also might not care if they are getting paid. If the SIMs are only being used for voice/text as I suspect, it might have very minimal load on the network.