'Grand Theft Auto 5' actor victim of prank call during livestream: ‘Now these a--holes have swatted my house’
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"Grand Theft Auto" voice actor Ned Luke was a victim of a swatting incident as he played the popular video game for fans during a Thanksgiving livestream.
"I gotta go," Luke, who has over 60,000 YouTube subscribers, said during the livestream. "Now these a--holes have swatted my house, so I gotta go." Megan Myers is an associate producer/writer with Fox News Digital Originals.
Swatting — when someone makes a false 911 report eliciting a hefty and aggressive police response — has become more common over the last decade as it becomes easier for callers to conceal identities with masked voices and spoofed phone numbers or IP addresses. The FBI created a nationwide database this year due to the apparent rise in hoax calls, recording over 200 swatting incidents between May 1 and Sept. 21, according to the FBI.
"The FBI takes swatting very seriously because it puts innocent people at risk," a FBI spokeperson told Fox News in September. "We will continue to work with our local, state, and federal law enforcement partners to gather, share, and act upon threat information as it comes to our attention."
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