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yeah i dunno the ins and outs of that, but the app most likely reports on your devices iemi, so regardless of what throwaway email address you use to sign up, if you bought that device, the cell company has your deets, also if they're making you connect to the cvs wifi, then their router will have that devices MAC address, and most like grab it's iemi information as well