swatting
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thumb|An FBI SWAT team during training
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Within Vinony's link graph, swatting is referenced by 266 other articles, and connects out to Federal Bureau of Investigation, bullying and school bullying.
It sits within the topics 2000s neologisms, Computer security exploits and Confidence tricks.
Its subject is documented across 18 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- harassment
- Named after
- SWAT team
- Image
- FBI SWAT team Watervliet Arsenal.jpg
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- hashtag
- Swatting
- described at URL
- www.seattle.gov/police/need-help/swatting
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- History
- Techniques
- Countermeasures
- Laws
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Injuries or deaths due to swatting
- 2015 Oklahoma incident
- 2017 Wichita incident
- 2020 Tennessee incident
- Other notable cases
- Video game streamers
- 2013
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- 2023
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thumb|An FBI SWAT team during training
Swatting is a form of criminal harassment that involves deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into sending a police or emergency response team to another person's location. This is achieved by false reporting of a serious law enforcement emergency, such as a bomb threat, mass shooting, domestic violence, murder, hostage situation, or a false report of a mental health emergency, such as that a person is suicidal or homicidal and armed, among other things.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “swatting” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.