Basic Information About Arnold Prank Calls And Other Similar Ones

By Catherine Wallace


Pranks or practical jokes are mischievous tricks some people play on someone, normally to let a victim experience perplexity, embarrassment, discomfort or confusion. These differ from confidence tricks and hoaxes because victims are told regarding the joke after instead of tricking them into handing their money and other valuables. They are lighthearted usually without a lasting impact.

Their aim is to make the target feel foolish or humbled and not humiliated or victimized by using affectionate humorous gestures to encourage laughter. Examples of these are Arnold prank calls that the caller uses sound clips from the movies of the actor to fool the other person into thinking the celebrity is calling them. They use digital applications for this where they just choose a recorded sentence to talk like them.

These were originally done by imitating voices of famous people while having these telephone calls that is easier since callers remain anonymous. Doing this became harder though because newer technology has been developed that lets you identify who is calling. These are caller IDs which could let individuals see names of the person calling them.

Pranksters can also use payphones because their numbers would not display in the device the receiver has but most people tend to not answer calls without caller Ids. These now have become less common since payphones are slowly being phased out with fewer ones left only. Their goal to remain anonymous is difficult with these.

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.

With more people using the internet, the popularity of prank calls has increased again where some online radio stations are dedicated to this. They broadcast various submissions from the community and features them on their channel. There are software allowing them to privately share their pranks live to fellow users.

Sharing of personally created pranks calls through the internet is possible allowing their own community to get developed. They might share previously recorded or live ones with some systems giving listeners the platform of chatting with pranksters while they are calling victims. Giving suggestions to what they would say is possible including having some discussions.

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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