Perhaps one of the security benefits of mobile wallets will be that the pairing of phones with payments makes users – and fraudsters – easier to track.
Robert Delgado of Monterey Park, Calif., received an eight-year prisons sentence for identity theft after investigators used his phone's signal to track his movements, Cnet
Delgado's phone number was found online by a postal inspector who was investigating a complaint by one of his victims. The inspector got a warrant to track Delgado's phone by GPS, and this led police to his home – where, during a raid, police found a hard drive with the personal data of over 300,000 people, the article said.