What experts warned about for months has just come to pass. Only seven days after the Mobile Phone Registry went into effect, ads have already appeared on Facebook Marketplace offering Telcel and Bait SIM cards “ready to use” for 1,500 pesos.
🔓 The package includes everything: registered CURP (Mexican national ID number), biometric data, and completed facial verification. Whose data is this? Nobody knows. But whoever buys this SIM card will be able to make calls and send messages registered in someone else’s name.
⚠️ The most serious consequence: if an extortionist uses one of these numbers, the police will come knocking on the door of the person whose biometric data was registered. You will have to explain why someone is committing crimes using YOUR identity, even if you have nothing to do with it.
The registry was launched amid scandal. On January 9, just hours after its launch, Telcel exposed the data of millions of users without passwords. The Anti-Corruption Secretariat is already investigating. Meanwhile, real criminals use Telegram, Signal, and disposable virtual numbers that will never be touched by this registry.
🔄 Mexico already tried this in 2009 with RENAUT. It failed; the data was leaked, and the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional. Now, with irreversible biometric data, the risk is even greater.
Source: focosmico
