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I lost my mobile phone, and I was told by a very nice man in a shop in Nanjing Rd that I would have to take my passport to China Mobile to get a new SIM card before I could buy a new phone. Well, that's all very sensible, except that there are people thrusting SIM cards at me from booths approximately 200 metres apart on every main road in Shanghai and I'm sure none of them ask to see passports. Of course, I'm equally sure that potential bad guys would use the legitimate channel to purchase a phone connection so they could be traced.