Swatting - Wikipedia

In the field of information security, swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a 9-1-1 operator) to dispatch an emergency response team. The name is derived from SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics), one type of said team.

Swatting has its origins in prank calls to emergency services. Increasing sophistication of the techniques employed and the objectives, notably attempts to direct response units of particular types, and in particular attempts to cause SWAT teams to be dispatched to particular locations, spawned the term swatting. The term may have been coined by the FBI, which investigates these activities.

Caller ID Spoofing, social engineering, prank call and phone phreaking techniques may be combined for Swatters. 9-1-1 systems (including telephony and human operators) have been tricked by calls placed from cities hundreds of miles away.




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Caller ID spoofing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Caller ID spoofing is the practice of causing the telephone network to display a number on the recipient's caller ID display which is not that of the actual originating station; the term is commonly used to describe situations in which the motivation is considered nefarious by the speaker. Just as e-mail spoofing can make it appear that a message came from any e-mail address the sender chooses, caller ID spoofing can make a call appear to have come from any phone number the caller wishes. Because people are prone to assume a call is coming from the number (and hence, the associated person, or persons), this can call the service's value into question."

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House Approves Anti-Caller ID Spoofing Bill - Security Fix

"The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved legislation that would make it a crime for someone to fake their phone's outgoing Caller ID information for nefarious purposes."
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Solving the Caller ID Problem - O'Reilly Emerging Telephony

"In the wake of the proposed Truth in Caller ID Act, a lengthy discussion of the issues around reliable Caller ID data recently took place on the excellent Voice Over IP Security Alliance VOIPSEC mailing list. While many points were debated, two things are clear: VoIP-based systems connecting to the PSTN have increased the unreliability of Caller ID data, and law enforcement agencies have legitimate needs to be able to get access to call record information that is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. "

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FCC Probes Caller-ID Fakers

"If you've ever used one of the half-dozen websites that allow you to control the phone number that appears on someone's Caller ID display when you phone them, the U.S. government would like to know who you are. Last week the FCC opened an investigation into the caller-ID spoofing sites -- services that began popping up late 2004, and have since become a useful tool for private investigators, pranksters and more than a few fraud artists."

FCC Probes Caller-ID Fakers

New Tricks Fool Caller ID (washingtonpost.com)

"It wasn't long after caller ID became popular that some people signed up for telephone services to block their number from being displayed. Now comes another trick: Companies are marketing systems to help callers fool telephone identification services into thinking they are someone else entirely. "

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