We still haven't lived it down! What can we do to make people…. Oh, Chinese eBay sellers, don't ever change There are…. Gather around, for PeeGee has a funny story for you…. At the risk of stating the patently…. Anonymous comments are disabled in this journal. Your IP address will be recorded. Log in No account? Create an account. Remember me. Peter G sinetimore wrote, - 12 - 30 Peter G sinetimore - 12 - 30 Previous Share Flag Next. With the invention and common use of the telephone, people began figuring out ways to remotely annoy or harass people.
The initial technique is simply calling to have pizzas delivered that people didn't order. But the next step is making fake calls to emergency services, such as fake fires and such. Eventually, people started figuring out that, saying the right things, you could trigger the involvement of police SWAT teams. With the rise of the Internet and Skype, swatting moved from the exclusive realms of TTY and phone phreakers to the everyday Joe, another case of technology enabling everyday people.
Using a combination of proxies and Skype, tracing calls became very difficult. Also aiding this is swatters will call non-emergency lines or related numbers that don't have the tracing and recording equipment that the emergency lines do, further concealing who they are.
Combine that with the immediacy of dispatchers believing there is a situation where someone is ready to kill and must be stopped, and no one has time to check, inspect, and verify. Swatting became commonplace by trolls looking to attack YouTubers in the gaming community that they didn't like. Commentators, live streamers especially live streamers, some of whom caught their swattings on camera , and people that just weren't liked got swatted. In fact, some would act as hired guns, swatting people in exchange for money or goods.
This was espcially prominent in the Call Of Duty gaming fandom, and is often attributed to where the phenomena became generally accepted as normal by the online community. As time went on, crtitics like me, Alpha Omega Sin, and more were saying swatting needed to stop.
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YouTube Wikis. Swatting is when someone takes your address, calls under your name, and informs them that some sort of mortifying crime is unfolding at your place. The caller may even label you as the one committing the felony. Sometimes swatting can cause injuries or even death. Kevin Kolbye , current assistant police chief of Arlington, Texas and former FBI swatting expert, claims that the number of swatting incidents continues to rise. The total incidents have gone from around in to over 1, today, making it essential to do whatever you can to protect yourself.
Swatting can happen to you, your neighbour, me, and to just about anyone in this country. It is enough to have your address published somewhere online and to cross roads with someone crazy enough to organize a swatting attack against you. Check if people-search sites expose your info. OneRep scans data broker sites for your profiles and removes your private information. Want to know which risk group you fit into? Read on to find where you stand, so you can take the appropriate measures to reduce your chances of being swatted.
A year-old boy admitted to targeting Bieber, Kutcher, and even a bank. This group includes people that interact online with others. You are at risk if you are:. In November , Adam Mosseri , an avid user and chief of Instagram, became a swatting victim. A SWAT team arrived and barricaded the streets outside. It was a close call for the senior executive and his family and hours passed before the police realized it was a hoax call.
All you need is a username that some people may find attractive. Such is a shockingly sad story of Mark Herring, 60 who refused to give up his coveted Twitter handle Tenessee and died of a massive heart attack in April as a result of a brutal swatting incident arranged by a year-old perpetrator who wanted to get the lucrative username and then resell it.
People who are not active online, but who have their contact details—phone number and home address—published by people search sites like MyLife, Spokeo, WhitePages, Instant checkmate, and many others. These websites collect your data and share your profile for profit. Not only do they expose your name, address and other contact details, but they also share info on your family, and a plethora of other data like your financial status, property ownership details, bankruptcy and business records, and so on.
To make matters worse, anyone can access the information presented on these sites. Therefore, if someone wants to get you back for something, they can always find your information from these web pages and prank call the cops under your name, and direct people to your home. And one infamous incident shows why :. In , in Wichita, Kansas, Andrew Finch was shot dead because he just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Two of the players involved, Shane Gaskill and Casey Viner, got in a fight over losing the bet. The caller, Tyler Barriss, speaking in the first person, claimed that he had killed his father, was keeping other members of the family at gunpoint, and he was going to burn the house down. And as the young, innocent man was leaving his home, police officer, Justin Rapp, shot and killed him.
What do they do? And you should apply this tactic to your social media profiles. Just think of all of the people who can find out your location from Instagram stories or tags. Plus, people can always copy and paste your name into a people search site and find out your address and other personal data. Our advice? Maybe use a nickname or your middle name instead of your first name.
Anyone can access your information and do whatever they please with it—including swatting.
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