Police respond to hoax shooting reports at multiple Florida schools
警方对佛罗里达州多所学校的虚假枪击报告做出回应
The FBI has warned about swatting, saying it’s a federal crime.
美国联邦调查局(FBI)曾对报假警发出警告，称这是联邦犯罪。
Swatting is a hoax where someone calls emergency services and reports a nonexistent crime to get law enforcement officials — generally a SWAT team — to show up to an address.
Swatting是一种骗局，有人打电话给紧急服务中心，报告一起不存在的犯罪，让执法官员——通常是特警队——出现在某个地址。
hoax /həʊks/
A hoax is a trick in which someone tells people a lie, for example that there is a bomb somewhere when there is not, or that a picture is genuine when it is not. 谎报
• He denied making the hoax call but was convicted after a short trial.
他否认打过谎报电话，但经过一番短暂的审讯之后他被判有罪。