Cell phone companies scramble to halt trafficking
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In this undated surveillance photo provided by TracFone Wireless, a man is seen checking cheap cell phones. You can buy these phones for less than $15, loaded with a set amount of minutes. And when the time is used, you can add more time to the phone. Traffickers have figured out they can make big profits by purchasing thousands of these phones and tweaking the software, so that the phones can be used on any network, thus costing the phone companies tens of millions of dollars. (AP Photo/TracFone Wireless)
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