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[1] [2] Recordings of soundboard prank calls are popular on the web, especially on video sharing sites such as YouTube. Soundboard prank-calling is often done with caller ID spoofing or masking, to provide a high level of anonymity or impersonation. The goal is often to create confusion or test how long the victim(s) will remain on the phone.
The Touch-Tone Terrorists are actually one man, Pete Dzoghi, [1] who also goes by the name RePete.He purchased a series of 1-800 numbers, including ones that were one digit different from actual customer service numbers for companies such as (apparently) UPS, an oil change business, an auto insurance "claims support line", a psychic hotline, a pen manufacturer, a bank, a department store, a ...
Often, the targets for repeated prank soundboard calls, and for the eventual creation of victim soundboards, are people who cuss out the prankster or otherwise argue with the soundboard. Each new prank call adds more potential recorded lines of speech to add to the Soundboard Prank Call Community's library with which to harass people. When a ...
British physicist R. V. Jones recorded two early examples of prank calls in his 1978 memoir Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939–1945.The first was by Carl Bosch, a physicist and refugee from Nazi Germany, who in about 1933 persuaded a newspaper journalist that he could see his actions through the telephone (rather than, as was the case, from the window of his laboratory ...
1 September 2007: T.A. Productions 883629285993 [23] 9 Tube Bar Legendary Prank / Crank Calls [The Ultimate Collection] CD 23 October 2008: T.A. Productions 883629648101 [24] 10 Tube Bar Prank Calls 35th Anniversary Complete Collection: CD 1 September 2010: T.A. Productions 885444445392 [25] 11 Tube Bar Vol. 4: Rummies, Bums & Dummies: CD 17 ...
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Pranknet initially operated through a chat room at Pranknet.org, and participants used Skype to make their calls. As of 2009, Skype used encryption and obfuscation of its communication services and provided an uncontrolled registration system for users without proof of identity, making it difficult to trace and identify users. [8]