ninjainspandex wrote:In hindsight that is what we should of done, it was just so creepy when I found it that this stuff actually does happen. How disturbed does someone have to be that they are willing to ruin someones life over losing a silly video game. Its a fucked up world we live in.
First, it would not ruin your life if he tried to do this to you (unless, of course, a law enforcement official shot you accidentally...). Second, I think it is funny and sad that someone thinks he can be "famous" for swatting people. What a pathetic person. I would feel pity for him if he were not so malicious.
Flake wrote:
Hobie-wan wrote:
But mommy said I was a special snowflake and I'm a winnar! I cannot lose!
I don't think it needs to be pointed out who the special flake is around these parts.
ninjainspandex wrote:I actually had a close call with being swatted back a few months ago, before I knew it was a real serious thing. I was playing Cod ghosts with a friend and we were completely destroying the other team, apparently a member on the other team really didn't like this and continued to shit talk me, he claimed he was a famous hacker/swatter named Clerke and he was tracking my IP address to find out where we live and was going to call the police saying we just murdered our family and have them send in a swat team or hack our bank accounts and leave us broke. I thought he was just some asshole talking shit, but he sounded dead serious it gave me goosebumps. He actually figured out my friend lives in Lake Forest Illinoise and that is when me and my friend dropped out of the Lobby. Who knows if he was actually serious, but I'm just glad I didn't stick around to find out. Needless to say I stick to party chat from now on.
I would suggest, if this were to happen again, to call the non-emergency line for the police and tell them what is happening. Say you're playing a game, the guy threatened you, so on and so forth. That way, if he did try to go through with it, your local police are already aware of the situation. And if he was threatening your bank account, the same thing applies. Call them, explain the situation, and tell them you're worried about the threat.
Or the next time some punk kid tries to start talking trash, reply with a deadpan voice "That's nice, kid. I work for the FBI. Do you really want to continue this?" And hope he doesn't call your bluff...or work for the FBI. Seems easy enough.
In hindsight that is what we should of done, it was just so creepy when I found it that this stuff actually does happen. How disturbed does someone have to be that they are willing to ruin someones life over losing a silly video game. Its a fucked up world we live in.
I wonder if Microsoft has a channel where you can report this type of abuse, outside of their "ranking the online experience with player x" stuff. This guy isn't going to remember you two days later when their gamer tag is shut down (and at a minimum are at least heavily inconvenienced).
Seems like they finally shut down this Clerk guys twitter, he was constantly bragging about hacking peoples xbox accounts, shutting down their internet accounts, shopping with stolen credit card numbers, and of course very open about swatting people. Seriously how do these people think they won't eventually be caught. Cocky little bitch, and kind of sad people admire him. Look at the youtube comments on this
About registered phone numbers: here we just sign a single form and the phone company processes the paperwork itself, so there's no real red tape (at least for us).
And I'm sorry, but you have given away soooo many of your freedoms after 11/9 but you mind this? It's not like anyone can find out your number, they need a warrant from the police, which in the case of prank calls like these, makes sense.
BoneSnapDeez wrote:The success of a console is determined by how much I enjoy it.
There are going to be so many other copy cats swatting people now, for the same reason people go on mass shooting sprees. They just want their 15 minutes of fame, they don't care at what cost because they feel so insignificant in life, doing this shit give them the sense they actually have some power.
ZeroAX wrote:And I'm sorry, but you have given away soooo many of your freedoms after 11/9
