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The strip search phone call scam was a series of incidents, mostly occurring in rural areas of the United States, that extended over a period of at least ten years, starting in 1994. 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 ...
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?" Some reports suggest that the calls are an attempt to record the person saying the word "Yes", in order to then claim the person agreed to authorize charges to a scammer; such claims have been ...
Pranknet, also known as Prank University, [ 1] was an anonymous prank calling virtual community that was involved in a string of malicious pranks and instances of telephone harassment, especially during 2009–2011. Their pranks were coordinated through an online chat room, and convinced others to cause damage to hotels and fast food ...
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In fact, according to Damona Hoffman, host of the Dates & Mates podcast, humor is one of the best ways to connect with people and ease tension, whether that means breaking the ice on a slightly ...
Unexpected John Cena, [ 1] also known as simply Unexpected Cena[ 2] or And His Name is John Cena, [ 3] refers to an Internet meme and a form of trolling [ 1][ 2] involving videos that first garnered popularity on video-sharing services such as Vine and YouTube in the summer of 2015. The meme was born and inspired by numerous prank calls done on ...
The PLA text files continued until mid-1997. [clarification needed] In the early 2000s, with the introduction of companies offering Caller ID Spoofing, groups such as the Phone Losers of America became notable in their utilisation of the service for prank calling, for example in the spoofing of law enforcement and corporate office numbers. [2]
Zoombombing or Zoom raiding[ 1] is the unwanted, disruptive intrusion, generally by Internet trolls, into a video-conference call. In a typical Zoombombing incident, a teleconferencing session is hijacked by the insertion of material that is lewd, obscene, or offensive in nature, typically resulting in the shutdown of the session or the removal ...