Category: prank calls

Reporter Charged for Hacking SD Gov. Kristi Noem’s Personal Cell Phone for Prank Call

May 6, 2023
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A South Dakota reporter is facing charges for hacking Governor Kristi Noem’s personal cell phone and using it to conduct a prank call. KOTA Territory News and Dakota News Now reporter Austin Goss was arrested and charged with making threatening, harassing, or misleading calls and appeared in court on Thursday. An individual identified as D.L….

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Nearly 1 in 4 Emergency Calls in 2022 Were Pranks, Trivial Calls: Aussie State Police Data

January 20, 2023
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Nuisance, trivial and prank calls made up nearly a quarter of calls to the Northern Territory’s emergency call centre in 2022, according to recent police data. Statistics provided to The Epoch Times from the NT’s Joint Emergency Service Communication Centre (JESCC) show that 82,323 (22 percent) of the 379,559 calls made in 2022 were time-wasters….

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Teenage Boy In United Kingdom Facing Charges of Threatening Arizona Schools

April 18, 2022
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A teenage boy is in police custody in the United Kingdom after he allegedly phoned threats to several schools and businesses in Scottsdale, Arizona. Scottsdale police said the boy was arrested by British law enforcement on April 12 for offenses related to “swatting” calls he made to seven schools and three businesses over the past…

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