Fraudulent 911 Calls

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"...They were victims of a new kind of telephone fraud that exploits a weakness in the way the 911 system handles calls from Internet-based phone services. The attacks - called "swatting" because armed police SWAT teams usually respond - are virtually unstoppable, and an Associated Press investigation found that budget-strapped 911 centers are essentially defenseless without an overhaul of their computer systems..."

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090202/ap_on_hi_te/tec911_swatting

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Yikes! That's another reason I like Jfax - I can get a phone number in any of 80 cities that takes messages and sends them to me by e-mail. It has no connection to my residence.