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About. The Touch-Tone Terrorists are actually one man, Pete Dzoghi, [1] who also goes by the name RePete. He purchased a series of 1-800 numbers, including ones that were one digit different from actual customer service numbers for companies such as (apparently) UPS, an oil change business, an auto insurance "claims support line", a psychic ...
The PLA text files continued until mid-1997. [clarification needed] In the early 2000s, with the introduction of companies offering Caller ID Spoofing, groups such as the Phone Losers of America became notable in their utilisation of the service for prank calling, for example in the spoofing of law enforcement and corporate office numbers.
The Tube Bar prank calls are a series of prank calls [1] [2] made in the mid-1970s to the Tube Bar in Jersey City, New Jersey, in which Jim Davidson and John Elmo would ask "Red," the proprietor of the bar, if they could speak to various non-existent customers. The gag names given by the pranksters were puns and homophones for often offensive ...
Pranknet. Pranknet, also known as Prank University, [1] was an anonymous prank calling virtual community that was involved in a string of malicious pranks and instances of telephone harassment, especially during 2009–2011. Their pranks were coordinated through an online chat room, and convinced others to cause damage to hotels and fast food ...
It resembled a mini Home Depot. And in some ways, it was. Much of the cache of products—worth about $150,000—had been stolen from real Home Depot stores. The retail chain’s internal security ...
Unexpected John Cena, [1] also known as simply Unexpected Cena [2] or And His Name is John Cena, [3] refers to an Internet meme and a form of trolling [1] [2] involving videos that first garnered popularity on video-sharing services such as Vine and YouTube in the summer of 2015. The meme was born and inspired by numerous prank calls done on ...
Captain Janks. Thomas Michael Cipriano (born March 28, 1966), [1] [2] [3] also known as Captain Janks, is an American practical joker most notable for making prank calls to live television shows and news networks since the late 1980s, such as Larry King Live, CNN and ABC News. He has been labeled by The Washington Post as the "nemesis of news ...
Prank call. A prank call (also known as a crank call or a hoax call or a goof call) is a telephone call intended by the caller as a practical joke played on the person answering. It is often a type of nuisance call. It can be illegal under certain circumstances. Recordings of prank phone calls became a staple of the obscure and amusing cassette ...