It's me again, Margaret. --- NAC

[Brett Dikeman]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Robert Myers <bob at chips-ur-s.com> wrote:

> At 2:30 AM the phone rings - an obscene call.  She dealt with it for
> a few seconds and her husband picked up and asked "Who is this?"  The
> other voice responded "Who are you?"  "I'm judge Hatcher and I'll be
> speaking with you in the morning."
>
> Ain't caller ID fun?  ;-)  We haven't heard the rest of the story yet.

Caller ID and ANI are both pretty easily spoofed.

It's an increasingly common prank for someone to fake Caller ID / ANI
info, call the emergency number for a particular county/city, pretend
they're the resident and that they just shot someone, or something
else designed to get the response of a SWAT unit- who show up, bust in
the door, and lots of guns get pointed at lots of innocent people.

It's called "swatting".

Brett