![]() ![]() ![]() With the July/August school vacation in a couple of months, Mc Kenzie said he expects a rise in the number of prank calls to E999. “We have to prioritise what we do because of the high numbers,” Mc Kenzie said. Mc Kenzie said, while the TTPS does not prosecute all the prank callers, a “high number” have been charged so far, including repeat offenders. They can also be charged for wasteful employment of police time under Section 6 of the Criminal Law Act which carries a fine of $1,000 or six months in prison. Under Section 106 of the Summary Offences Act, people can be changed for Misuse of a telephone which carries a fine of $200 or a month in prison. People who make prank or nuisance calls to E999 can be charged, Mc Kenzie said. “For E999 calls there is caller id and numbers can be traced and very often when we choose to prosecute those persons who make prank calls, or give misinformation in calls we would use that same technology to our advantage,” Mc Kenzie said. Mc Kenzie said E999 has the ability to trace phone calls, unlike 555 which allows for callers to give anonymous tips. Only 48,427 of those calls were legitimate calls that required police assistance or intervention, Mc Kenzie said. Of that amount, 274,173 were prank or nuisance calls. The trend has not changed much for the first four months of this year.īetween the period January 1 to April 30, 2019, there were a total of 322,600 calls to E999. Only 131,963 of the calls made to E999 last year were legitimate emergencies that required police intervention or assistance, according to the statistics, Mc Kenzie said. This means that more than eight out of every 10 phone calls received by E999 last year were prank or nuisance calls. Of that figure 1,007,835 were either “prank, nuisance, or idle type telephone calls,” which included heavy breathing, giggling and the giving of false information, Mc Kenzie said. Mc Kenzie said a total of 1,139,798 calls were made to E999 for the period January 1 to December 31, 2018. Sgt Steve Mc Kenzie of the TTPS revealed the statistics yesterday as he spoke about the type of calls made to E9. At the time of publication no statement has been given by KickBack Apps / PrankDial and I will update the article in the event we are provided any statement or more details.More than one million prank or nuisance phone calls were made to the Trinidad and Tobago Police Services’ emergency command centre (E999) last year. I can only assume that the numbers are routed through a VOIP server and did not appear to be part of this dataset. It should be noted that I did not see phone numbers. I sent multiple requests to KickBack Apps and PrankDial but no one every replied or acknowledged my discovery, instead they simply closed public access to the logs. Internal IP addresses, Ports, Pathways, and storage info that cyber criminals could exploit to access deeper in to the network.Device, operating system and version info.User emails, credentials and password reset tokens, user IP addresses exposed in the logs.Users get three free calls a day, if you want to send more calls, you can earn or buy tokens.Users can submit their reactions so other people can rate/comment on them.Users get a call history of all their reactions.Listen to their reactions afterwards (they are recorded).Choose from hundreds of prank call scenarios. ![]()
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