intelligence mechanisms such as natural language processing can be used to identify if the phone call is a phishing attack. Offensive approaches Specialized systems, such as phone apps, can submit fake data to phishing calls. Additionally, various law enforcement agencies are continually making efforts to discourage scammers from conducting phishing calls by imposing harsher penalties upon attackers. Notable examples IRS Phone Scam Between 2012 and 2016, a voice phishing scam ring posed as Internal Revenue Service and immigration employees to more than 50,000 individuals, stealing hundreds of millions of dollars as well as victims’ personal information. Alleged co-conspirators from the United States and India threatened vulnerable respondents with “arrest, imprisonment, fines, or deportation.” In 2018, twenty-four defendants were sentenced, with the longest term of imprisonment being twenty years. COVID-19 Scams On March 28, 2021, the Federal Communications Commission issued a statement warning Americans of the rising number of phone scams regarding fraudulent COVID-19 products. Voice phishing schemes attempting to sell products which putatively “prevent, treat, mitigate, diagnose or cure” COVID-19 have been monitored by the Food and Drug Administration as well. Hollywood Con Queen Scam Beginning in 2015, a phishing scammer impersonated Hollywood make-up artists and powerful female executives in order to coerce victims to travel to Indonesia and pay sums of money under the premise that they'll be reimbursed. Using social engineering, the scammer researched the lives of their victims extensively in order to mine details in order to make the impersonation more believable. The scammer called victims directly, often multiple times a day and for hours at a time, in order to pressure victims. Thamar Reservoir Cyberattack The 2015 cyber attack campaign against the Israeli academic Dr. Thamar Eilam Gindin illustrates the use of a vishing attack as a precursor to escalating future attacks with the new information coerced from a victim. After the Iran-expert academic mentioned connections within Iran on Israeli Army Radio, Thamar received a phone call to request an interview with the professor for the Persian BBC. To view the questions ahead of the proposed interview, Thamar was instructed to access a Google Drive document that requested her password for access. By entering her password in to access the malicious document, the attacker can use the credentials for further elevated attacks. Mobile Bank ID Scam In Sweden, Mobile Bank ID is a phone app (launched 2011) that is used to identify a user in internet