came4U
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Joined: 1/23/2007 From: London, Ontario Status: offline
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I found out the name for it: Swatters. Virtually unknown until recently, swatting gained national attention last month when 19-year-old Randall Ellis was arrested after allegedly dispatching a SWAT team to the home of an unsuspecting couple in Orange County, California. That incident cost county officials nearly $20,000. In that case, a Rosoff's co-conspirator named Guadalupe Santana Martinez ended up dispatching 35 county employees, including the SWAT team to a Snohomish County home in the middle of the night. "He built enough information and called 911 and faked that he was committing a serious crime at the time," he said. "When our patrols responded, nobody answered the door, so it ended up being an activation of our SWAT team." Martinez used a spoof card to conceal his identity in this case, according to court filings, but in the Snohomish County incident he used an even simpler technique: he blocked his caller ID and simply gave 911 operators his victim's number, according to Cole. "Even with our 911 system if you use some blocked numbers for privacy reasons it's hard for our 911 system to read them," he said. http://www.pcworld.com/article/139804/swatters_trick_atandt_make_fake_911_calls.html anyhoo, makes you wonder if one can call into action a National test 911 week or something, to ensure all addresses correspond with the correct numbers?? Done throught the mail it would save in the end likely if cites had a listing of home phone numbers and cellphones?? At least it might help?? Tigress, for example, she won't know until she actually had to call 911 if their information is accurate. What if she couldn't speak at the time of the call??? But seeing this article makes me realize, if one can spoof another's home telephone, it would be nearly impossible to verify the accuracy of any number at all. No easy solution. (except being alert during a 911 call, which might possibly be impossible).
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