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A man from Wales was part of a dark web network who encouraged others to commit incidents of “swatting” at home and in the USA and Canada. This involved false reports being made which resulted in hotels being evacuated and armed police turning up at the home of innocent people.
Callum Dare, 26, served as an administrator on an online network which came to the attention of the FBI following a number of “swatting incidents”, an act of harassing a victim by triggering an armed police response to that person’s location, based on a false report of an emergency, in order to gain a “thrill or notoriety”.
A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday heard a hotel in Cardiff was evacuated after nail bomb threats were made to a WalesOnline journalist and a university in LA was evacuated due to threats of bombs being placed under chairs. Full story here
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