NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service has found and is quietly dismantling a massive network of “SIM farms” across the New York area just as world leaders gather for meetings at the United Nations.

(NewsNation) — Secret Service agents seized more than 100,000 SIM cards and over 300 SIM servers from a massive SIM farm located just miles from the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.

A collection of "SIM boxes" that hold from hundreds to more than a thousand SIM cards, and each SIM contains a cellular phone number. SIM farms are used for both legitimate and illegitimate purposes.

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