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Two Dead After T-Mobile ‘Ghost Calls’ Flood 911 Center in Texas

Gizmodo

March 16, 2017

T-Mobile is just the latest mobile carrier to deal with problematic 911 calls, but this time, the problems are bad. Like so bad, people are dying. This month, numerous “ghost calls” from T-Mobile numbers flooded 911 call centers in Texas and have been linked to two deaths. And although the calls originated from T-Mobile devices, people using all carriers were unable to reach 911 dispatchers during the incidents. Scarier still, nobody knows what’s causing them...

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#Contact Center Security
#Critical Infrastructure
#Emergency Services & 911 Systems
#Ghost Calls
#Healthcare
#Hospitals
#Phone Scam
#TDoS