Incoming call likely scam

The victim is a decoy.

Haunch puts believable AI decoys in front of scammers and keeps them talking until they type out where the money should go. Each bank account, wallet and scam site then goes to whoever can block it, with a record nobody can quietly edit.

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00:00 The decoy answers

A believable person picks up.

Our decoys are made-up people with steady stories and small habits. Scammers hear a patient, slightly confused stranger who wants to do the right thing.

Persona
Margaret, 74
Story
Retired librarian, Ohio
Habit
Talks about her cat, Biscuit
Rule
Never sends money, never shares real data
00:12 Playing along

Willing, clumsy and endlessly patient.

The decoy asks which number goes in which box, says the transfer failed, and asks for another account. Every account, wallet, phone number and link is checked the moment it appears.

Sample case:

    Scripted sample with made-up accounts. The detection is real Haunch output.

    00:31 The money trail

    Then the scammer types out where the money goes.

    A working account is the one thing a scammer can't fake, and they will hand it to anyone who seems ready to pay. That account is what a bank can block.

    £173Mrefunded by UK payment firms to scam victims in the first year of mandatory reimbursementBratby Law
    1 in 6conversations with scammers produced a bank account in Netcraft's researchNetcraft
    00:32 Chain of custody

    Every detail is sealed into a chain nobody can quietly edit.

    Each message and each collected detail is one link. Every link carries a fingerprint of its contents and of the link before it, so a bank or investigator can check that nothing changed.

    Checking the chain
    Within the hour The lead goes out

    Straight to the people who can freeze the money.

    • Pilots openBanks and credit unionsMule accounts while the scam is still running, before your customers pay into them.
    • Pilots openExchanges and stablecoin issuersWallet addresses scammers are using right now, ready to flag or freeze.
    • In developmentPhone carriersSend detected scam calls and texts to decoys instead of just blocking them.
    • ComingEveryone elseForward a scam message and a decoy takes the conversation off your hands.
    Always Rules we don't break

    Fighting scammers doesn't excuse acting like one.

    • We only keep what scammers send us.No hacking back, no tracing, and no tricking anyone into installing anything.
    • Our decoys are made up.No real person's name, photo or details. They never send money or real data.
    • A lead is not a verdict.Mule accounts often belong to victims and numbers get spoofed, so the bank checks before it acts. We never publish names.
    • Many scammers are prisoners.The UN human rights office estimates 300,000 people are forced to work in scam compounds. We go after the money, not the person typing. Source
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    The Haunch engine will be open source under Apache 2.0, so anyone can check how a lead is produced. Source code publishing soon.

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