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"Please hand over your personal phone, not any replacements you carry as decoys"

• mamon 10y ago
  "I don't bring my personal phone when traveling, because last time my 700$ iPhone was broken by stupid CBP agents" - that, or any reasonable excuse should work. EDIT: "I bring dumbphones when traveling because battery lasts two weeks, unlike iPhone" "I heard that there are lot of thieves in the country I visited, so I was afraid to bring my real phone" "I heard that airport X-ray machine can brick iPhone" "I really like cheap, Chinese phones, they are so cute" "iPhones are for hipsters, I prefer cheap, practical devices" possibilities for excuse are endless. And, as the old rule goes, the stupider the excuse the better - if you can convince CBP agents that you are harmless idiot you win.
  • ucaetano 10y ago
    Almost all of those are lies. Lying to a federal agent is a felony.
    • amadvance 10y ago
      I really have a dumbphone because the battery lasts more than one week..
      • ucaetano 10y ago
        So it wouldn't be a problem, but if you carry a dumbphone, hand it over and then they search your luggage and find another phone, you'd be in deep trouble.
  • nisse72 10y ago
    Why does anyone feel it's necessary to explain why they have the phone they have? There are plenty of people who use cheap phones, and not just as decoys. Why would they exist otherwise?