Interresting in the light other similar services used in the privacy domain.
In an announcement today, Europol says that the cybercrime service operated through two websites, gogetsms.com and apisim.com, which have been seized and now display a law enforcement banner.
I was actively seeking out privacy options for mobile internet, but I knew nothing about the service that was exposed this time. After looking into it, I found it was being advertised on several hacker forums.
Their exposure might have involved something beyond simply providing SIM/SMS services for privacy aspects. For example, there could have been links to criminal organizations in their funding sources, or their SIM procurement methods might have been illegal.