“Torswats” is a Telegram user that has reportedly called in bomb threats to different locations, including high schools, using a digitally created voice.
broke the story on the user, who goes by “Torswats” and offers a paid service on the messaging platform Telegram to conduct swatting calls. Swatting refers to the act of lying to law enforcement about a bomb threat or framing someone else in a certain location as having committed a crime or harboring illicit material. For $50, customers can purchase “extreme swattings,” where authorities will oftensuspect and search their house, and for $75, Torswats can apparently close down a school.
According to Vice’s report, Torswats accepts cryptocurrency as payment, and will offer returning customers a discount and is willing to negotiate a price for famous targets.“Hello, I just committed a crime and I want to confess. I placed explosives in a local school,” the voice on a recording of a Torswats call with law enforcement says.
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