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The Phone Phishing project allows you to report suspicious phone calls, completely anonymously. This project aims at collecting data regarding phone phishing (also called "vishing") attempts, in order to better understand the phenomenon and help the researcher to conduct studies.

Latest updates

May 23, 2009 — Phone Phishing is on Facebook. Join our group and fight phone scammers!

Mar 6, 2009 — The Phone Phishing team wants to thank the first submitters for their contributions. Although the amount of data is still not sufficient for a significant analysis, our team thinks that a first draft report may be published in a few months.

A blog may be set up soon! Also, check out our Twitter micro-blog and Bookmarks.

What is this all about?

While phishing scams are normally spread through e-mail, the use of automated or human-driven phone calls have been recently used to steal valuable information such as Social Security Number, generic account data, PIN numbers and so forth.

As e-mail phishing, phone-based phishing is a social engineering attack but it exploits spoken dialogues in order to collect data, instead of tricking the user into clicking a malicious link.

PhonePhishing.info (i.e., "Phone Phishing") let its visitors to report information about phone phishing scams such as the phone number, the subject of the call, whether or not it is human-driven, and so forth.

Hey, where's the data?

Phone Phishing is just born but we are happy to say that we received some interesting reports. Although a reasonable amount of data is still needed to write meaningful statistical reports, we decided to publish the latest 20 reports. We are pleased to receive your submission but cannot guarantee that it will work out. So, if you have data, just submit it and stay tuned! It costs nothing to you but it helps a lot!