Tag: PRANKCALL

On Saturday, iTunes VP Eddy Cue called a woman named Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, U.K., to congratulate her on winning Apple's 10 billionth app download sweepstakes, and to award her with a $10,000 prize. Davis, however, politely declined the offer, and hung up. "I thought it was a prank call," Davis told Cult of Mac. "I said, 'Thank you very much, I'm not interested' and I hung up." But one ...

A 16-year-old North Carolina boy, known by his Internet handle "Tyrone," made the rounds of Digg, Drudge, and the rest of the blogosphere after he was arrested for calling in a series of bomb threats to schools. A fury erupted over allegations that Tyrone was being held without charges under the Patriot Act, which of course turned out to be completely false. ...

Prank phone calls are usually made by bored 12-year-olds looking for a laugh. But there are enough older folks out there who are no more mature than those 12-year-olds. What's worse, they've added new tools to their arsenals -- VoIP Internet calling services. Due to bugs in the way 911 services around the country handle calls from Internet-based sources, it is easy for these pranksters to spoof ...

digg_url ='http://digg.com/celebrity/How_World_Leaders_Call_Each_Other'; Some seemed to think it was embarrassing when Sarah Palin was fooled into believing that a Canadian radio shock jock was French president Nicolas Sarkozy shortly before election day. Many people (including some commenters on this site) defended Palin, asking how she could have known (ignoring the obvious clues such as ...

A comedy duo called 'The Masked Avengers' from a Montreal-based radio station pulled off an impressive feat when they managed to get Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin on the phone and convince her she was talking to French president Nicholas Sarkozy. Palin doesn't seem to figure out that it's a prank call, despite obvious clues. The prank caller makes a joking reference that Sarkozy can see ...