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An FBI SWAT team during training. 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.
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.
What is swatting? The FBI describes “swatting” as a prank designed to draw an emergency law enforcement response to a hoax victim, often creating a situation where a Special Weapons and ...
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.
An apparent swatting call at the home of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., led to a car accident during the police response, which left one woman dead and an officer injured.
On April 4, Ahgren, QTCinderella, and their roommates were swatted. [17] The stream momentarily ended; once it returned, Ahgren and QTCinderella hid the swatting from the stream viewers. [17] On April 10, the stream was one second away from ending before subscriptions were quickly added to bring the timer up.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said his home in Naples, Florida, was “swatted” on Wednesday night. “Last night, while at dinner with my wife, cowards ‘swatted’ my home in Naples,” Scott ...
On August 5, 2022, Sorrenti was swatted and arrested after an email was sent to members of the London, Ontario city council claiming to be Sorrenti with an intent to kill her mother and members of the London City Council. The incident, that she believes to be a hate crime, led to computers and phones being confiscated by police.