Director of the IT-Reserve company Pavel Myasoedov told the Prime publication why you should not take free
Such sims are not registered on the realsubscriber, but are issued to some individual entrepreneurs or unknown individuals. Sometimes the owner may not change for years. The expert says that the number of such SIM cards in circulation is decreasing, but not too quickly, because any implemented SIM card increases the operator's subscriber base.
The number associated with it can be registeredon many sites. “Using such a card, you risk not only becoming the object of a large number of spam calls, but even becoming an accomplice of one or another fraud,” Myasoedov said.
Also, if you use this number forregistering in different applications, you can eventually lose access to personal accounts. If something happens to the SIM card, it cannot be exchanged for a new one. And the real owner does have all the legal grounds to pick up the number at any time. He will be able to receive all your SMS, including access codes to banking applications.