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Mitt Romney: I Need People Like Donald Trump

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Vicious Babushka5/29/2012 10:04:37 am PDT

re: #277 I’m back in the USSR (sigh)

If I understand it correctly, it works like this: you use Skype or some other VoIP service to call police and impersonate some poor chap, claiming that you shot “your wife” or something like that, and giving that chap’s address. Under normal circumstances these VoIP calls are untraceable (they probably are, in principle, but one would need some spiffy court orders for that, and even then proxies might have been used, etc.).

Basically that’s a prank call (tech-wise, not results-wise) taken to the next level.

How does 911 dispatch verify that a call is authentic and not a prank?