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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 ]
A related belief arose in 2015 that telling Siri on an iPhone to "Charge my phone to 100%" would cause the phone to call the emergency services as a secret safety code. [4] This was later traced to a bug in Apple programming that was fixed within a day. The myth continued to spread on social media as a prank. [5]
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“Our suggestion, what we have told folks internally, is not new here: Encryption is your friend, whether it’s on text messaging or if you have the capacity to use encrypted voice communication ...
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 ...
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]
The Chase Bank trend is just the latest “get rich quick scheme,” a centuries-old concept that has been resuscitated by social media, drawing desperate people into financial crime.
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