What is swatting?

Swatting is a form of harassment in which attackers try to trick police forces into sending a heavily armed strike force - often a SWAT team, which gives the technique its name - to a victim's home or business. Learn more about swatting and how to protect yourself.
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[@Warg141]

Imagine being so low that you swat your online streamer enemy after finding their IP when somebody could be in a hostage situation and need SWAT to rescue them.

[@mtndew490]

''after finding their IP'' LOL its very hard to dox someone from they're IP, all you can do with it is find there hometown and ddos them.

[@appz8757]

Ok

[@SinCorporation]

Cry about it. Lol.

[@SinCorporation]

@@Warg141 I could care less. Keep crying, because it’s never gonna stop.

[@ArcNinja]

@@SinCorporation you are the type of kid to swat someone after loosing a 1v1 from them

[@insertnamehere08]

QT has PTSD from being swatted. I feel so bad.

[@jennmanea3751]

Same

[@jon-kl9mk]

People don't have anything better to do with their wicked lives so they have to make others a living hell!

[@ThroughMyEyes2020]

You can say that again bro...
ruclips.net/video/ZYtY48wg2co/видео.html

[@mtndew490]

ok

[@SinCorporation]

It’s hilarious

[@Atomic_Pinneaple]

Bro those peeps don't got lives

[@SinCorporation]

@@Atomic_Pinneaple They do. You should’ve seen what they can do!!!

[@Ghost-uh9ie]

This sounds more like a sick prank call...

[@vermiciousknid5840]

A lot of people have been killed because of this. Many police go in shooting because of these calls.

[@JohnDoe-jk2do]

(gone wrong)

[@lakshitdagar]

This ain’t no prank

[@marshallhuffer4713]

Tim Pool has recently been swatted for the 10th time, Rekita Law has been swatted this and TheQuartering has also been swatted twice this week.

[@magistrumartium]

What a disgusting, evil thing to do.

[@B1txa]

I hope they know how much harm they caused.

[@SinCorporation]

Who cares

[@phatexrl]

@@SinCorporationI hope you mature up dude if you’re not joking, this is serious and I hope anyone who does it gets arrested

[@SinCorporation]

@@phatexrl my friend has done it a million times. So I don’t care. It’s comedy.

[@WinQuester]

Oil wasted for a prank call does it seem funny?

[@MrSssofresh]

@@SinCorporation what’s funny about it🤔

[@KeithCindyPanama]

People who fake these calls should be held accountable!!!! Are lawsuits happening????

[@virgondust]

Yh once they're caught they can be and have been trialed for fraudulent 911 calls which can lead to a 3 year sentence, community service and a fine but this one guy did a call that resulted in the death of a family man and it resulted in him getting 20 years

[@SinCorporation]

Never. And you can cry about it all the way home

[@MellowJelly]

They do it anonymously because these people are privy with fake phone numbers and virtual machines that hide their location and identity

[@Cacowninja]

What about the thug police that give the hacker so much power?

[@samhrdlicka1387]

Seriously

[@Truther567]

Local sheriff should be notified when you’re wrongfully swatted. If he doesn’t uphold the Constitution to protect your rights, he needs to be arrested by “we the people” through a petition and replaced by a true Patriot.

[@KZ-kl8fx]

You live in America bro nobody cares

[@lukesplanet]

How about LE do more verifying before ramboo into homes. Feel like this can be avoided.

[@thrill44708]

1:15 they also say sometimes that their is a bomb threat

[@LeCheeese]

Tanks for the Info.i never knew waht that means

[@alovesupreme8603]

Just another level of evil .. combine this with defunding the police more and more innocent people actually in need of first response services, will be left vulnerable and not able to receive services if swatting incident in progress and now an elderly innocent man has lost his life?
What the world needs now is loves LOVE SWEET LOVE!

[@brunovivaldi4515]

how the people who call the police dont get arrested?

[@sumiraishaq2303]

only goodness in swatting is the crew returns alive with the celebrity(PROBABLY?)

[@elenaherwagen3529]

What is the gain of swatting except sending a political message maybe?

[@JidoKashi]

Just makes somebody’s day worse. Some people are just bastards like that.

[@brittanyblevins5759]

Not realizing they are wasting tax dollars for their emotional unintelligence

[@KeithCindyPanama]

Tim Pool has been swatted 8 times!! People who fake these calls should be held liable!!!!

[@SinCorporation]

Money!!!

[@baconboy-robloxmore2684]

@@brittanyblevins5759 what

[@LWBHarntweall]

Surely the people that do this can be charged with making a false statement to police and improper us of emergency no. Heaven forbid someone gets shot as a result they should be charged with incitement to cause grievous bodily harm or murder if person dies.

[@KaidenPvP15]

Remember @Tennessee?

[@buskingkarma2503]

I'm old so I have to look stuff like this up,,,but them I get even more confused!😆

[@Pinc_Magik]

Imagine when someone dies behind this

[@billmandj0485]

Someone just said they would swat me so I wanted to see what it means

[@Green2Red2]

Why is this common among gamers and live streamers? I don't get why they are always the target. Can someone explain, pls?

[@utahraptor1578]

To make it happen on stream, or in "revenge" if the person beats them in game

[@Marcus-wp8zf]

Yeah but this can only happen in the US, where police kicks out your door without even asking or surveiling anything

[@DeltaVR98]

Bro why does this video feel like this person wants to teach us how to swatt someone

[@dionkingboss250]

Ty For saying

[@DeisySolis1]

That’s so wrong 😢

[@usrmtc1601]

This didn’t happen in the 80’s because follow up was conducted to verify

[@justsomerandomdude5379]

Why has this never happened to OF people etc... why mostly gamers

[@agitouhd]

Typical sociopaths move. Those type of people would perfectly fit to work in the governmental agencies.

[@ChiupelAnimations]

Why.

[@MellowJelly]

In no way does it put the armed police in harm's way. Only the victims

[@vicchavez6570]

My home was swatted 20 times in a year

[@pazcuh4553]

how

[@andrerone8208]

If your home was swatted 20 times in a year I would say you're full of s*** tell me how your house was swatted because if that happened that many times I have no family members left do us a favor stop playing around you cuz this is a very serious thing

[@babayega3987]

Jesus wtf do you do for a living...??!

[@mkodyglobalsouthsoldier]

@@babayega3987 swatting

[@privatecanook]

I smell cap

[@Spinex_Drone]

M not ever gonna b swatted.

[@steadyuser919]

Swatting is free???

[@penguinscanfly5796]

police is free

[@SockeyeFish7]

This is so stupid, absolutely no reason people should do this

[@yessir3504]

Hi

[@kimthomas8717]

O m g I’ve never known about this
This is evil

[@saulgonzalez6408]

This is far from rainbowsix seige

[@georgeK1]

you call the local pd not 911 you skid

[@acida965]

nice animation

[@jimmy_x557]

Wtffff

[@David-cz2zi]

I've been swatting streamers and it's quite fairly easy

[@the-fash-states-of-America-ALT]

This gave me an idea

[@onlyanormalnoob9415]

col

[@peakstar2300]

@Rimbothyツ he said col
stupid

[@peakstar2300]

@Rimbothyツ i do not think so

[@autumn-6244]

@Dream he did say cool and your cool

[@SinCorporation]

Facts