Posted on 09/29/2021 4:04:45 PM PDT by conservative98
Federal authorities are investigating the possible purchase of a burner phone by Brian Laundrie the day he went missing, according to reporting from TMZ.
Sources told TMZ that the FBI visited an AT&T store near the Laundrie family home and seized surveillance footage.
The report indicates that Laundrie entered the store on Sept. 14 with an older woman and purchased a phone, which is the date the Laundrie family says they last saw him.
Laundrie family lawyer Steve Bertolino told Fox News that the FBI is in possession of a phone purchased by the Laundrie family, but declined to say why they would have purchased a new phone, noting he would not "speculate" on their rationale.
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I believe they filed the financial charges against laundrie to make search warrants for all financial and phone records easier to obtain. He is now a suspect, not just a person of interest. My guess is, the government knows more about the families’ transactions than they do individually.
The last report I saw indicated that it was NOT a ‘burner’ phone.
I would imagine if he’s using it to be able to communicate without being tracked, then that would be considered a burner phone.
it just means there is no contract.
I doubt AT+T sells those.
they love their contracts
Phone FBi had is a different phone bought on the 4th. He made another purchase on the 14th which they are investigating.
They have a pay as you go no contract similar to TracFone
Not really. Lots of phones are sold without a contract without being burner phones.
Burner phone. Like on fire and stuff.
shocking.
Sounds like Brian’s ROTTEN SCUMBAG MAMA is in on his crimes. Makes her a phone accessory, or some such..
If you’re buying a burner phone for privacy reasons that extend beyond simply using the number to send anonymous Signal messages or avoiding spam, be aware that no cell phone provides you with true anonymity
It’s all about your “threat model”—what threats are you trying to protect your privacy from?
Just think about the process of getting a burner phone from the store. Let’s say that you drive to a store, buy the burner phone with a credit card, drive home, and turn it on.
In the process of this: If you took your normal phone with you, your cellular carrier will know that you were at the store at the time the phone was purchased. License plate cameras on the route may have captured your license plate and recorded your movements. A camera in the store may have recorded you buying the phone. Your credit card company will have a record of you buying the phone. When you turn the phone on at home, the cellular carrier your phone uses will have a pretty good idea of where your home address is.
And if you carry your burner phone and normal phone at the same time and both are powered on, anyone looking at cellular phone records can get a pretty good idea that those phones are owned by the same person.
Yes, that’s a lot of ways that you could be traced by an adversary with serious resources. If you’re really trying to evade government authorities—well, good luck. You’ll need it.
not to mention the embedded gps tracking..
Terrorists use “burner phones” because they can’t be traced. They pay cash.
Of course. They’ve pretty well tightened the noose from every angle. But at the very least it could give him a phone without incriminating message or photo evidence traveling on his person. Still, if it was bought, say with his mother’s help, to try to evade authorities to me it was bought as an intended “burner” phone.
“Terrorists use “burner phones” because they can’t be traced. They pay cash.”
I think you’re both right. Terrorists buy them by the case and they probably are very difficult to trace. However, you typical American (criminal) probably can be traced just like mylife said.
I believe it depends on how smart the criminal is.
“Federal authorities are investigating the possible purchase of a burner phone by Brian Laundrie..”
Meanwhile, Dog is actually about to capture him.
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