Press Kit: US Robocall Data, Methodology and Citations

What we publish

• The spam-call data pack: charts and CSV files of FTC Do Not Call complaints by area code, state, subject, week and hour. Each edition is dated and never rewritten.
• The monthly US robocall report: month-on-month change, top states, area codes and campaigns, with a published method and a corrections log.
• Top reported numbers, plus a page for each area code and each state.
• Guides on the rules behind the calls, each linked to its statute or agency page.

Findings from edition 2026-10

All from 683,247 FTC complaints about 579,489 numbers, July 24, 2026 to October 20, 2026.

• 17.7% of complaints name a toll-free number; 833 is the largest at 3.9%.
• 91.8% of reported numbers were reported once; 189 numbers with 50 or more reports account for 3.2% of complaints.
• 37.4% of complaints name a number with the complainant's own area code (44.9% leaving out toll-free).
• The geographic area code with the most complaints is 813 (FL, 5,731), but 54.1% of those come from one city-and-own-code group, so rankings of area codes move with a few filers.
• Nebraska has the highest complaint rate, 325 per 100,000 residents (228 without its largest single source).

Charts and tables for each: the data pack page. Our guide to which area codes are scams explains the area-code findings in plain language.

Files

• spam-calls-2026-10-area-codes.csv · Complaints by area code (every prefix in the file)
• spam-calls-2026-10-states.csv · Complaints by the complainant's state, per 100,000 residents
• spam-calls-2026-10-subjects.csv · Complaints by subject the consumer chose
• spam-calls-2026-10-weekly.csv · Complaints by week
• spam-calls-2026-10-call-hours.csv · Complaints by hour of the recorded call time

Five SVG charts (white background, sized for slides and print) are listed on the data pack page.

How to cite

Text citation:

WhoCalledLookup, “US spam-call data pack, edition 2026-10” (FTC Do Not Call complaints, July 24, 2026 to October 20, 2026), https://whocalledlookup.com/data/spam-calls.

Chart credit line:

Chart: WhoCalledLookup.com. Data: FTC Do Not Call complaints (unverified consumer reports).

HTML:

<a href="https://whocalledlookup.com/data/spam-calls">WhoCalledLookup, US spam-call data pack, edition 2026-10</a> (FTC Do Not Call complaints, July 24, 2026 to October 20, 2026)

For the monthly report, use the citation line printed at the foot of each edition at /reports/robocalls. Please link to the page and name the edition, since figures can change between editions.

What the data can and cannot say

• Complaints are unverified consumer reports. The FTC says so about its own file.
• A complaint names the number shown on the phone. Spoofing means that is not always the number that placed the call.
• Area-code and state counts show where reports point and where reporters live, not where scammers are.
• The people who file are not a random sample of people who get calls.
• Please avoid wording such as “scam area code” or “the most scam-ridden state”. Say “most complaints” and give the unit.

Methodology

The full method, definitions and limits for the data pack are on its page, under Methodology. In short: the FTC's Do Not Call reported calls data set is imported each weekday, de-duplicated, and aggregated by the first three digits of the reported number, the complainant's state (with Census Bureau 2024 population estimates), the subject the consumer chose, the week and the hour. The monthly report adds FCC complaint data and an outlier rule for concentrated single-town sources, described on its page. Edition 2026-10 covers Jul 24 to October 20, 2026.

Sources and reuse

• FTC Do Not Call reported calls data set, published each weekday by the Federal Trade Commission.
• FCC Consumer Complaint Data, an open data set from the Federal Communications Commission.
• North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA) area-code reports.
• U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 population estimates.

The aggregates, charts and CSV files on this site were produced by WhoCalledLookup from those public sources. If you quote or reuse them, we ask for a link to the page you used and the edition name. The source agencies' own terms apply to their raw files.

Corrections

If a figure is wrong we correct it in place, with a dated note on the page, and carry the correction into later editions. The monthly report keeps a visible corrections log; its 25 September 2026 correction, for example, removed a single-town spike from a state ranking. Send corrections and questions through the contact page.

About

WhoCalledLookup is published by OmegaIT (Managing Director Andrew Pickett). It is a free reverse phone lookup built on public complaint data, and is not a consumer reporting agency. See About and methodology.