A Facebook executive was the victim of a hoax claiming he had shot his wife and taken his children hostage

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By Isobel Asher HamiltonJan 11, 2019, 5:58 am166 pts
Police turned up at the house of a Facebook executive in California this week after a prankster imitated him and said he had shot his wife and taken his children hostage. The call was a hoax known as "swatting" where the suspect sends emergency services to a location by phoning in a fake, often violent, crime.…

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