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Swatting. Swatting is a criminal harassment act of deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into sending a police or emergency service response team to another person's address. This is triggered by false reporting of a serious law enforcement emergency, such as a bomb threat, murder, hostage ...
Here's what you need to know about swatting and hoax threats after four current and former Ohio officials were the latest victims of the crime.
Swatting is a criminal harassment tactic that involves false reporting in order to generate a police response to another person's address. Information in the hoaxes is often obtained through data broker websites, compromised accounts, and leaked databases to obtain, often through legal means, personally identifying information about the individual which can be used for swatting.
Once people have been exposed through doxing, they may be targeted for harassment through methods such as actual harassment in person, fake signups for mail subscriptions, food deliveries, bombarding the address with letters, or through “swatting”—the intentional dispatching of armed police teams to a person's address via falsely reported ...
Bevan Hurley. February 8, 2024 at 2:54 PM. Science fiction author Patrick S. Tomlinson, right, says he has been ‘swatted’ 47 times in just over four years. Alan Filion, centre, is suspected of ...
At 2 p.m. on Christmas Day, Rep. Brandon Williams, R-N.Y., received an urgent phone call from his local sheriff’s office in upstate New York: There was a shooting at his home, and deputies were ...
2017 Wichita swatting. On December 28, 2017, a fatal swatting incident occurred in Wichita, Kansas, United States. During an online dispute between Casey Viner and Shane Gaskill regarding the video game Call of Duty: WWII, Viner threatened to have Gaskill swatted. Gaskill responded by giving him a false address for his residence, one that was ...
The swatting incident happened Dec. 30 when an unknown person called 911 and made false claims that prompted authorities to respond to the fake emergency, Craig Harris, Kiawah Island director of ...