Hoax Call Sends Police to SWATing Incident

Police in a suburb of Atlanta (Geo.) say the telephone call their dispatcher received reporting a home invasion robbery was a hoax intended to generate large police response. In this case, a woman used a VoIP phone line to make the call, and dialed the Roswell 911 center’s TTY line to make the so-called SWATing call. The caller sounded authentic and reported four men with guns had broken into her home, and gave an address. Responding police quickly learned there was no emergency at the address, and no one was injured. Police have not said if the address was specifically targeted, which is usually the case in SWATing incidents. Read more about the incident here.