This is a group that has changed US universities
A self -declared leader An online group linked to the violent extremist network, Com tells Wired that he is responsible for active alerts of the shooter’s alerts at universities across the United States in recent days with students returning to school.
The person, known as Gorges, says he collects a group called Purgatory, who follows his followers of the service menu, including deceptive threats against schools – known as Swatting – for just $ 20, while fake threats against hospitals, jobs and airports can cost $ 50. The group also apparently refers to real -world violence, according to the group’s telegram channel review by Wired, cutting “and” brick “for $ 10.
In recent days, however, prices have risen with the media reports, with a school currently costing $ 95 and costing $ 35.
The group is associated with 764, a Nihilistic subgroup of COM that does targeted activities against children using extortion, dox, replacement and harassment. 764 members have been accused of everything, from robbery to sexual abuse, kidnapping and murder.
Since the uprising started on August 21, about dozens of different universities have been targeted with 911 emergency calls, some have to warn after receiving several deception calls. Gorez tells Wired that the group has earned about $ 100,000 since the start of the radiation. Wired has independently approved this figure.
And also the confirmation of Gorges, two scholars who spoke to Wired, confirmed that they both listened to the band that were conducting voice calls in the audio, as they have occurred in recent days. At least in one case, a researcher was able to clarify and contact the targeted institution to inform them that this is a deception.
Records of Swatting calls provided by researchers and reviews of the Telegram channel run by Purgatory, where members of the group are celebrating in recent days, including Swatting efforts at the University of Colorado Boulder on Monday afternoon.
The university police are under investigation with “state and federal partners, including the FBI”, to discover any pioneer or potential pattern that may be related to other recent cases across the country, “said Nicole Moshak, a spokesman for the University of Colorado Boulder. “
The FBI told the Washington Post that he was investigating and in a statement to the New York Times, “It is witnessing an increase in rotating events across the country, and we take potential threats very seriously because it puts innocent people at risk.” The agency did not respond immediately to the Wired request for comment.
“Consciously, by providing false information to emergency service agencies on a possible threat to the lives of law enforcement resources, it costs thousands of dollars and, most importantly, endangers innocent people,” FBI added.
The recent controversy began on August 21, the same day the current Purgatory Telegram channel. At around 12:30 pm local time on that day, the University of Tennessee received a phone call claiming to be an active shooter on the campus. The school was locked more than an hour before the campus police issued a cleansing at 1:51 pm after finding no threat. Hours later, at the University of Vilanova in Pennsylvania, a deceptive call forced the school to lock because students and colleges attended the university orientation university ceremony to welcome new students.
