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Bookmark or Share- Swatting: Here’s what you need to know - CNNSwatting is a prank call made to authorities with the express purpose of luring them to a location – usually a home – where they are led to believe a horrific crime has been committed or is...
- What Is Swatting? - ADLSwatting is the deliberate and malicious act of reporting a false crime or emergency to evoke an aggressive response (often a SWAT team) from a law enforcement agency to a target's residence or place of work to harass and intimidate them.
- What is swatting? Examples and prevention tips - Norton™Swatting is a form of harassment where someone makes a false or malicious report to emergency services, leading to a police SWAT (special weapons and tactics) team or other law enforcement response at the victim's location.
- Swatting - WikipediaSwatting 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.
- The FBI has formed a national database to track and prevent 'swatting'Swatting is increasingly enabled by technology that can be used to mask a caller’s real voice, their phone number or IP address (also called “spoofing”) or to make their false report sound ...
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