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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.
Some victim soundboards are created of police officers who answer prank calls in dealing with a recurrent victim's case, as often the pranksters are bold enough to prank them with the soundboards as well, due to prankster's confidence in masking the origin of the call, and/or because the prankster is in another country and believes they cannot ...
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 ...
Hbdragon88, have you ever listened to any soundboard prank calls or even watched anything related on YouTube or are you just trying to ignore Wikipedia's actual guidelines and treat this article like a bureaucracy? KirkCliff2 21:40, 27 August 2009 (UTC) Please see WP:RS, WP:V. Just becuase it exists does not make it worthy of inclusion.
The raid was triggered by an attempt to access customer profiles at numerous retail stores across the country, primarily Safeway, of which some were utilized for prank phone calls. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The case was treated as a federal matter, and was presided over by Judge Marco A. Hernandez of the Federal District Court of Oregon . [ 8 ]
With voice electronically altered and posing as the mother of a boy making prank calls, one of the pranksters managed to convince police to put the victim back on the phone, who unknowingly recounted his experience to the pranksters. [21] On January 9, 2011, a Holiday Inn in Omaha, Nebraska, was targeted. Taking advantage of the ability to call ...
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Fonejacker is a British sketch comedy show that aired on E4, featuring prank phone calls made by various characters, all voiced by British-Iranian actor Kayvan Novak. The show first debuted in May 2006, with its popularity leading to a full series in 2007.