Recent Phone Number Reports

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Reports describe what the caller said. Pair them with lookup activity, country feeds, and the spam database to decide whether a number is safe to answer or call back.

Why Community Reports Beat AI Spam Detection

I've watched a lot of automated spam-classification systems work. They're good at catching patterns they've already seen — confirmed scam numbers, dialing patterns from known operators, prerecorded audio fingerprints. They're terrible at catching the first wave of a new scam, the one that ran for the first time on a Wednesday morning and is being workshopped in real time.

Humans catch those. A real person who picks up a call, hears the pitch, recognizes that the "Amazon fraud department" is asking the wrong questions, and writes 200 words about it — that's intelligence no classifier produces. The FTC's consumer reports database lags spam waves by days because it depends on humans filing complaints in a slow, formal channel. RevealNames lags spam waves by hours because the channel is one short form.

Combine the two: classifier signals tell you which numbers are probably spam. Community reports tell you what the spam actually said, when it ran, and what it's trying to extract. You need both.

What Makes a Useful Report

• Specifics over outrage. "Called 6 times in 1 hour from a spoofed local number" beats "annoying spam call." The next person reading your report wants the details that match their own experience.
• The caller's exact pitch. "Claimed to be from my bank's fraud department and asked me to verify my last four card digits" is the kind of detail that helps the next person spot the same script.
• What happened next. Did they hang up when you asked questions? Send a follow-up text? Try again from a different number? Outcomes are diagnostic.
• Time of day. Robocallers favor 9–11 a.m. and 1–3 p.m. local time on weekdays. If you got a call at 3 a.m. on a Sunday, that itself is a tell.
• Don't include personal info. Never paste your full name, address, SSN, or account numbers. Moderators reject reports that contain PII, even your own.

Report Categories Explained

How Public Reports Work

Submitted reports publish immediately after category selection, including category-only reports with no caller name or description. We still review abuse reports and may remove PII leaks, harassment of the named caller, duplicate spam, or obvious advertising. We do not remove reports just for being negative or strongly worded. The point of this page is honest community intelligence, not balanced PR.

Spotting a Fake Report

This isn't theoretical. Operators sometimes try to game pages like this with positive reports about their own scam numbers, or negative reports about a competitor's legitimate business. Four tells:

1. TIP 01 — Vague language with no specifics. "Great service, very professional, recommend" attached to a phone number is a tell. Real reports have details about what happened.
2. TIP 02 — Same caller name on dozens of unrelated numbers. If "Mike from Service Department" shows up across 40 area codes, it's astroturf.
3. TIP 03 — Reports posted in clusters within seconds. Botnets fire bursts. Real humans take minutes.
4. TIP 04 — Marketing copy disguised as a report. "Avoid this scam, use [competitor] instead" is a sales pitch wearing a community report's clothes.

Frequently Asked Questions