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An alleged series of robocalls threatening people critical of President Donald Trump initially spurred fears of political harassment, but were in fact recordings made by a prank call producer. Reports of the calls began circulating in November 2017, after some social media users shared their recordings of the message, which stated: But the message did not originate with any political group and was not exactly what we think of as a robocall; instead, it was designed by a private company, Ownage Pranks, which allows users to request and send prank calls through its app. A spokesperson for the company told us by email how their process works: Ownage's spokesperson also noted that their terms of service state: The terms of service also warn that the company may audit calls to make sure that users know the person they are pranking. They continue: The spokesperson also told us that anyone who does get a phone call through the app also gets a follow-up prerecorded message saying You've been pranked by ownagepranks.com and giving an option to block the company from calling them again. They added: In response to the increased attention around the Trump for Office Foundation script, the spokesperson said: Another social media user in Canada reported getting a call saying Trump was watching [her] social media acct in July 2017; she told us that when she returned the call she heard a voice message saying that she had been pranked. However, it is unclear whether she received the Ownage Pranks recording.
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