Jerusalem – The Israeli-American teenager suspected of perpetrating more than 100 bomb threats against Jewish institutions used technologies including Google Voice, a call forwarding service, and Bitcoin, a digital currency, to make the threats.
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According to an article in The Daily Beast, the 19-year-old suspect’s name is Michael Kaydar. Israel’s anti-fraud squad arrested Kaydar at his home in southern Israel and searched the premises on Thursday.
He also is accused of a series of threats made in Europe, Australia and New Zealand in the past six months, according to reports in Israel, and is reported to have called in threats to the Israel Police two months ago regarding Israeli educational institutions.
To hide his identity, Kaydar used a technology called SpoofCard that masks a number’s caller ID, according to the Daily Beast. When police subpoenaed SpoofCard’s parent company to trace the call’s real number, they learned that he had called from a disposable Google Voice number.
He paid for SpoofCard through Bitcoin, also untraceable, and routed his internet through proxies, making his IP address untraceable as well. In addition, he masked his voice in the calls to sound like a woman.
Kaydar was caught after he forgot to trace his internet connection through a proxy server, allowing police to trace his IP address, which led to his home.
Yonasonw , hashomer, qaxc you are all very quite today? I wonder why. Did those evil alt-right guys threaten you today? Your pants is on fire!
So predictable!! The lone sane voice still around by True Yiddn was ignored. Even on this website comments were posted by a few responsible e people that these charges are all a trap by the ADL. Rightminded Jews understood that all these antiemitic claims are BOGUS! Nobody listened and everuone was so “concerned” including the “very well meaning Bibi”.
Bibi: take care of your own trash down there and stop attacking Americans with empty antisemitic charges! Americans are fine people. We live here peacefully. The “real” people causing antisemitism here are the ADL. Theyre not combating antisemitism they are thriving on it. Thank G D this crazed man was exposed if not the ADL wldve continued to try to “unmask” the great threat of antisemitism that does NOT exist while creating it at the same time. Time for the ADL to shush up.