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A California teenager has admitted to making hundreds of swatting calls - hoax emergency calls - over a two-year period, creating "fear and chaos" when police responded to his false reports of ...
The incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police officer, and then convincing managers to conduct strip searches of employees (or, in at least two known cases, a customer), and to perform other bizarre and humiliating acts on behalf of "the police". The calls were most often made to fast-food ...
From August 2022 to January 2024, Filion made more than 375 "swatting" and threatening hoax calls, including calls in which he threatened to detonate bombs or conduct mass shootings at targeted ...
A dozen police officers, along with firefighters and paramedics surrounded his family home. In 2015, New Jersey State Assemblyman Paul D. Moriarty announced a bill [32] to increase sentences for hoax emergency calls, and was targeted by a hoax. [33] [34] The bill proposed prison sentences up to ten years and fines up to $150,000.
That same evening, Enid, Okla., police arrested a local high school student who had allegedly made a hoax call to one of the schools as a prank. In a statement, police said, “The student was ...
Reports on the purported scam are an Internet hoax, first spread on social media sites in 2017. [1] While the phone calls received by people are real, the calls are not related to scam activity. [1] According to some news reports on the hoax, victims of the purported fraud receive telephone calls from an unknown person who asks, "Can you hear me?"
Florida police extradite teenage ‘swatter-for-hire’ who allegedly charged $75 to call in hoax bomb threats. ... where a person calls in a false report of an emergency, crime, mass shooting, or ...
Police in Lincoln, Nebraska, told KETV-TV that they had handled three swatting calls in the same 48-hour period in which they went to the unoccupied home of former state Sen. Adam Morfeld.