Anatomy of a Scam Call: What 10,000 Real Scam and Spam Calls Reveal about How Phone Scammers Operate

Telephone fraud is pervasive and costly, but its inner workings are rarely observed at scale. We analyze a complete corpus of 10,211 inbound scam and spam calls -- 913 hours of audio and 330,956 transcribed turns from 5,780 distinct numbers -- collected over 54 days by an AI voice-agent honeypot...