[Samwise]

The television story was more detailed. There were several purchases across the eastern Indiana border. The news lady even called their cell phone. He wouldn't talk to her. I believe the TV said they were driving from Minnesota.

[nopardons]

This is now an epidemic. Goodness gracious................

[Dasaji]

Another possible scenario for the purchase of these Tracphones is that someone "underground" may have figured out a way to hack into Tracfone's system so that these pre-paid phone minutes no longer need to be "paid" for and it's only a certain model that it will work on.

On the black market, a phone like that would sell for bundles. Hacking goes on all over the place with cell phone networks, so it wouldn't surprise me.