A fake emergency call to police resulted in officers responding Friday night to the home of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows just a day after she removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause.
She becomes the latest elected politician to become a target of swatting, which involves making a prank phone call to emergency services with the intent that a large first responder presence, including SWAT teams, will show up at a residence.
Bellows was not home when the swatting call was made, and responding officers found nothing suspicious.
Or maybe calls from voip are identified before sending out a swat team
Problem is there’s a ton of legitimate VoIP. My brother had a VoIP home phone for years because it costs next to nothing. Police can’t just not go to a call because it’s a VoIP call.
I’m saying show a little more caution. (I know lol)
They can spoof the phone number so it’s a phone number associated the address.