Tag: SWATTING

Earlier this week, telecommunications company TelTech launched a new service called TrapCall, which allows users to expose the numbers (and names) of blocked callers, according to the Wired Blog. Recently drawing some heat from the press, TelTech is responsible for the SpoofCard service, which has in turn facilitated the recent rash of 'swatting' incidents. With the SpoofCard service, ...

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 ...