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20 November 2017

Basic Information About Arnold Prank Calls And Other Similar Ones

By Catherine Wallace


Practical jokes or commonly known as pranks are mischievous tricks played on someone, usually to let the victim experience discomfort, confusion, perplexity or embarrassment. These differ from hoaxes or confidence tricks because victims are told about the joke after rather than tricking them to hand over valuables like money. They are normally lighthearted and have no lasting impact.

Their aim is in making their target feel foolish and humbled but not humiliated and victimized by using gestures with affection and humor to encourage laughter. Samples of these are the Arnold prank calls which the caller use some sound clips acquired from movies of that actor into fooling the other person to think the one calling them is the celebrity. They use for this digital applications where they only choose recorded sentences in talking like them.

Originally, these were done by imitating the voice of famous people during telephone calls which is easier since the callers are anonymous. Doing this have been harder since then because technology of letting you know who is calling you has been developed. These are known as caller IDs where individuals can now see the names of those calling them.

Pranksters also could use payphones because the receiving device cannot display their numbers but most people prefer not answering calls with no caller IDs shown. These are less common now since the payphones are fewer due to them getting phased out slowly. Their goal in remaining anonymous has become harder with these situations.

Another alternative is becoming popular increasingly that is using services in VoIP which telephone numbers are simply nonexistent. Tracing these calls is very difficult because these are passing through various routers and servers operate by several entities from different countries. Although law enforcement agencies may trace them but their time, resources and effort is too great in tracing an ordinary prank.

Prank calls are increasing in popularity again with more people utilizing the internet with several online radio stations dedicate to this their content. They broadcast those submitted by the community and feature them at their channel. Software apps are there that allows them to share privately their pranks in real time with fellow users.

Sharing personally made pranks calls is possible through the internet and this allows them to develop a community. They could share these things live or those they previously recorded and some systems lets listeners chat while pranksters are calling their victims. This lets them discuss and give the caller suggestions on what they say.

Be careful though when you plan to do this yourself because laws are there against the abuse of this joke that is considered a crime. You could not call emergency services then pretend someone needs help immediately or just talk to them random things. Calling with intent of threatening, abusing or harassing someone is a crime too.

Another commonly done prank considered a crime is when you contact law enforcement agencies to report a threat like a bomb. This could cause them to search the area or cancel an event happening there resulting to inconvenience for many people. Doing these acts might get you arrested after tracing you.




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