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  2. Swatting - Wikipedia

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    Caller ID spoofing, social engineering, TTY, prank calls, and phone phreaking techniques may be variously combined by swatting perpetrators. 911 systems (including computer telephony systems and human operators) have been tricked by calls placed from cities hundreds of miles away from the location of the purported call, or even from other ...

  3. 11-year-old arrested after reporting fake kidnapping to 911 ...

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    An 11-year-old Florida girl was arrested after falsely texting authorities that her friend was kidnapped by an armed man. She later confessed the prank was part of a YouTube challenge.

  4. Hoax 'swatting' calls could become a felony in Minnesota - AOL

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    For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. ... "Tonight my family and I were the target of a 'swatting' incident involving a 911 prank call that wrongly diverted a police ...

  5. Culprits identified in prank 911 calls threatening school

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    The 911 calls that came in early Friday included a threat to stage a shooting at Collins Middle School, which led to police being at the city's school out of what the police chief called an ...

  6. Prank call - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Most kids struggle to recognize an emergency and call 911 ...

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  8. List of practical joke topics - Wikipedia

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    A toilet papered residence in Deerfield, Michigan. This is a list of practical joke topics (also known as a prank, gag, jape, or shenanigan) which are mischievous tricks or jokes played on someone, typically causing the victim to experience embarrassment, perplexity, confusion, or discomfort.

  9. Nikki Haley reveals new details of the 'awful' swatting ... - AOL

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