The potential for fraud is "raising flags in the tech community," according to the Wall Street Journal's "Digits" blog. "What will happen if people get a hold of more than one SIM card and claim extra aid? In an interview, Abeer Etefa, WFP's regional public-information officer for the Middle East, said measures are already in place to prevent the misuse of the SIM cards. She stressed that this is a pilot program, in which the agency is attempting to discover whether the system is vulnerable to abuse" (10/27).

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