[6] The article quoted an FBI representative who allegedly told the Tribune that the calls to Columbia residents "would likely be prosecuted on the local level.

"[6] In early November 2016, Carter reported that the FBI performed an early-morning raid on his recording studio, resulting in a temporary seizure of all technical equipment.

The raid was triggered by an attempt to access customer profiles at numerous retail stores across the country, primarily Safeway, of which some were utilized for prank phone calls.

[8] On October 16, 2017, Judge Hernandez sentenced Carter to eight months of home detention, followed by five years of probation.

[9] The PLA maintains an archive of answer machine messages in text-based format, which Motherboard have described as being the "ringtones of their day".