Subscriber records

What police can find#

Carriers keep a record of every SIM they sell. On-duty police read those records at a terminal in the carriers' data center, the Nova Networks Data Center, and can search:

• A phone number. Its carrier and status, the registered subscriber, every SIM bought for the number (who bought it, when, and at which carrier shop) and its history: earlier numbers, and who held the number before it was reissued.
• A citizen ID. Every number registered to that citizen, with its carrier and status. On ESX, the citizen ID is the player's identifier, such as char1:... with multicharacter.

SIMs created by an admin command or another resource show "issued outside a shop". So do SIMs bought before your server installed the update that added records, since the shop was not recorded then.

Ghost Mobile keeps no records. A Ghost Mobile number answers that there is no record of who bought the SIM, and Ghost numbers never appear in a citizen's list. This applies to every carrier with supportsSecure = true in config/carriers.lua, and to every Wolfden Phone Secure line. Shade handles are never in subscriber records either.

Use the terminal#

1. Go to the terminal at the data center. With ox_target, look at it and choose Subscriber records; only the jobs allowed to search see this option. Without ox_target, stand at the terminal and press E.
2. Choose Search a number or Search a citizen ID and type it in.
3. The results open in a menu. Go back to run another search.

The server checks the officer's job, duty and distance from the terminal on every search. Each officer can run 15 searches a minute. On ESX versions without duty tracking, every officer counts as on duty; see Framework and inventory.

Set it up#

Edit Config.SubscriberRecords in config/records.lua:

Each terminal needs a unique id, a label, its coords and a target radius. Move the included terminal to fit your map or MLO, or add more:

terminals = {
    {
        id = 'nova_datacenter',
        label = 'Nova Networks Data Center',
        coords = vector3(-1083.0, -245.9, 37.76),
        radius = 1.5,
        blip = { enabled = false, sprite = 521, color = 38, scale = 0.7 },
    },
},

Terminals have no map blip by default. Set blip.enabled = true to show one.

Review searches#

Every search is logged, including searches with no result, so you can check for abuse. Each row in the phone_records_lookups table holds the officer's citizen ID, the type of search, what was searched, whether anything was found, the terminal and the time:

SELECT officer_citizenid, query_type, query, found, created_at
FROM phone_records_lookups ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 50;

Searches also fire the wd_phone:server:recordsLookup server event, for your logging resource. A police MDT can read the same records through the GetSubscriberRecord and GetCitizenNumbers exports, which follow the same Ghost Mobile rule and are logged too. See Exports & integrations.

Seized phones#

Subscriber records tell police who bought a SIM. To get into a seized Wolfden Phone Secure, on-duty police use the forensic unlock. For other phones, see the lost and stolen status in Nova Account & recovery.