FBI Targets Prankster Who Harassed Police Via Skype

In what should serve as a warning to telephone pranksters, the FBI last week raided the Wisconsin home of a 20-year-old man suspected of using Skype to place hundreds of hoax calls this year to sheriff’s departments in Florida and Minnesota.

The prank calls, placed to toll free emergency service numbers, resulted in deputies responding to many “false reports of individuals in danger, some of whom purportedly suffered life threatening injuries”.

One prank call cited involved a male caller who said he was in the bathroom of a McDonald’s with his “five year old girlfriend,” and that he wanted to be arrested. Fearing that a child was in danger, seven Florida deputies responded to eight McDonald’s locations, while five dispatchers worked for about two hours. After extensive response by numerous officers from various agencies, no caller or victim was located and the call was considered a hoax.

A two-month bureau probe resulted in the March 21 raid of the Oshkosh, Wisconsin home of Mason Seckar, who is identified as a suspect in the prank calls. The FBI affidavit alleges that the calls constitute violations of federal laws governing harassing phone calls and threatening communications.

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