Prank Calls Can Lead To Jail Time
Written by admin on December 21, 2009 – 12:48 pm -
Be careful if you plan to pull some prank calls on your friends or enemies. It seems that congress in getting into the act and trying to make it a more serious crime. They want to make an offense subject to a two year jail sentence.
I don’t think they are talking about crank calls where you make believe you are someone else and ask for a fake person like on the jerky boys bar tapes, but I would assume it would be for bomb scares or where the police get involved.
Here is what one source has to say about the new laws. Making a prank phone call could land pranksters behind bars, now that Congress has recently passed legislation barring prank phone calls. Under the new law, prank calls made using a false number could result in up to a year in prison, and up to five years for defrauding with a fake number.
Before caller ID, prank phone callers and solicitors took advantage of their anonymity. However, a far worse situation has emerged as pranksters and defrauders trick caller ID systems into producing a fake name and number.
The most popular choice has been “Jenny: 867-5309” from Tommy Tutone’s hit ’80s song. However, some situations are much less humorous.
In Florida and Texas, SWAT teams were misled into what they thought were hostage situations, eventually causing personal and property damage. In other cases, callers with IDs matching those of banks and other institutions have duped individuals into giving them their passwords or social security numbers.
I would just be careful about what kind of prank calls you plan on making. Just be careful and keep them safe and fun. How about calling your local bar and ask for Hugh Salami or Hugh Jardon.
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By Traffic Lawyer on Dec 22, 2009 | Reply
A recent prank call by a motorist who was angry that he had been issued a speeding ticket resulted in him getting into much more trouble. He called the home of the police officer’s mother and told her that her son had been in a serious car accident. The called was traced and he was placed then arrested for aggravated harassment. http://888redlight.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/speeding-ticket-leads-to-ill-advised-prank-call/