Sentence examples for make hoax calls from inspiring English sources

DO NOT make hoax calls to 911.

One of the children referred to him was a young girl of 14 who had made hoax calls to the police.

In one recently-discovered British scam, off-duty firemen in the West Midlands made hoax calls at the ends of shifts to trigger extra pay for their colleagues.

In 2008, as tensions mounted between Pakistan and India over an attack on the Indian city of Mumbai by another militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Mr. Sheikh managed to make a hoax call to President Asif Ali Zardari and the army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, in which he pretended to be the Indian foreign minister and threatened Pakistan with an Indian attack.

Now Barriss is facing up to 20 years in prison after Barriss pleaded guilty "to making hoax bomb threats in phone calls to the headquarters of the FBI and the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C".

Bosses at the Australian radio station, 2Day FM, which made the hoax call, have come under fire for giving the go-ahead for the prank.

The pressure group Fathers4Justice has condemned a cyber-attack on Mumsnet, which led to armed police being called to the home of the parenting site's co-founder after a hacking group made a hoax call.

In 2012 2Day FM presenters Michael Christian and Mel Greig imitated the Queen and Prince Charles and made a hoax call to the London hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge was being treated for morning sickness.

Armed police officers were sent to the home of the founder of Mumsnet after a hacker made a hoax call as part of a wider attack on the parenting forum and its 7.7 million users.

The resolution comes two-and-a-half years after 2DayFM presenters Michael Christian and Mel Greig imitated the Queen and Prince Charles and made a hoax call to the London hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge was being treated for morning sickness.

The Australian radio DJs who made the hoax call to the hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge was being treated for acute morning sickness could have committed an offence under UK law, a leading barrister has said.