Phishing threats were analyzed in a recent report by APWG.  According to the report, fraudsters are increasingly calling potential victims directly, and luring them with text messages that may contain a phone number for the targeted subscriber to call. These phone-based methods are more immediate, and allow fraudsters to talk victims out of their sensitive information.  The report also found that phone methods being blended with email to carry out targeted attacks known as Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks.

Source: Security Magazine