That's because reselling the phones here in the US gets you only about a $20 profit per phone, but reselling it overseas will get you over $100 profit per phone. Most people with connections to places to re-sell them overseas are recent immigrants who have a connection to a family business back in the old country where these phones can be used. And the place where these phones can be re-sold in street markets is mostly in India, the Middle East, and parts of Asia.
Suspicious is suspicious. If an Arab buys a lot of phones, check it out. Better to do it now then have a lot of people die.
If you are really concerned about terrorism, then you should want the FBI to be persuing real leads and not diverting agents off onto a wild goose chase every time someone buys more than one cell phone at a time.
>That's because reselling the phones here in the US gets you only about a $20 profit per phone, but reselling it overseas will get you over $100 profit per phone. Most people with connections to places to re-sell them overseas are recent immigrants who have a connection to a family business back in the old country where these phones can be used. And the place where these phones can be re-sold in street markets is mostly in India, the Middle East, and parts of Asia.
That's funny, maybe if Mississippi had any Asians, this would make sense.
>If you are really concerned about terrorism, then you should want the FBI to be persuing real leads and not diverting agents off onto a wild goose chase every time someone buys more than one cell phone at a time.
Again, tell that to James Woods.
That's because reselling the phones here in the US gets you only about a $20 profit per phone, but reselling it overseas will get you over $100 profit per phone
Overseas where? Iraq, Iran to detonate IED's?
Did it ever occur to you that if YOU know it's a cell phone "scam," the FBI probably knows all about this kind of activity, too? And, therefore, despite Struggle's well-intentioned and proper phone call, they ignored the warning, knowing it was not a terrorist plot. No money wasted except Struggle's quarter.
If they buy the phones for $20 and sell them for $40, after deducting the cost of gas and hotels, that's not bad money.
Buy 1K phones for $20K, sell at $40K, that's a nice little business.