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What is Phone Phishing?

Phone Phishing is a public website where anyone can submit information about suspicious phone calls. Phone Phishing can be defined as the phone-equivalent of PhishTank even if the two projects are not related at all.

What is a phone-based phishing scam or phone scam?

A phone-based phishing scam, or simply phone scam, is the attempt of stealing valuable information using the telephone channel. During a phone phishing scam, you will receive a phone call and you will be asked to provide information such as access codes, phone numbers, account numbers, and so forth.

For a more detailed explanation to help you recognize a phone phishing attack, read our Phone Phishing Guide.

Does Phone Phishing protects from phone phishing?

No. Phone Phishing does not use its database to provide any sort of protection. In the future, the data collected through Phone Phishing could be used to help the community and/or the phone carriers to build a blacklist of suspicious numbers.

Who's behind Phone Phishing?

There is no organization behind phone phishing, neither public nor private. Phone Phishing is a no-profit project and its authors provide this service as-is, with the only purpose of doing some statistics regarding the phone-based phishing attempts.

Does Phone Phishing shares collected data?

Yes, the collected phone numbers and the subjects are shared on the website.

I reported a suspected phish, but I don't see it listed.

Please allow some minutes before the submission becomes visible on the public website.

Is Phone Phishing related to Caller Complaints?

No. Phone Phishing is focused on fraudulent phone calls only. Caller Complains is aimed at collecting generic user complaints about annoying phone calls such as telemarketing, or political calls. However, the calls listed on Caller Complaints may or may not be fraudulent as well, and thus could appear on both the websites.