Several of Mason’s buddies recall him buying fifteen or twenty Skytel pagers for his entourage for two reasons. One, to help the group make plans from one night to the next. And secondly, to see how many numbers they could each collect. What those friends didn’t know was Mason had a third reason for buying the pagers: because he bought them, he had the PIN codes for each person’s device. It meant he could not only snatch the women’s phone numbers for himself, but also play practical jokes on his friends because of the back-end access he had to the pagers.
