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Robocalls in Georgia

Georgia consumers have filed 31,118 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC against 27,328 different phone numbers between 2014-01-02 and 2026-11-03 — 3.1% of all state-attributed complaints, ranking 11 nationally. Complaints in the last 12 months are up 33% on the 12 months before that.

31,118
FCC complaints
29,162
FTC DNC reports
8,131
FTC reports, last 30 days
#11
National rank (FCC)

What Georgia residents are reporting

29,162 FTC Do Not Call complaints from Georgia since Jul 24. The most common named subject is debt reduction, at 30%. 78% of complainants who answered said the call was a recorded message.

Complaint subjects

  • Other / unspecified11,58140%
  • Debt reduction8,79630%
  • Impostor (government, business, family)2,94810%
  • Medical & prescriptions1,7586%
  • Dropped call / no message1,5975%
  • No subject given1,3515%
  • Warranties & protection plans4171%

When the calls come (as reported)

29% between 10am and 1pm; 92% on weekdays, most on Thursdays.

Week by week

8,289 complaints from Georgia in the last four weeks, level with the four weeks before.

Neighbor spoofing in Georgia

31% of the calls Georgia residents reported showed the resident's own area code, and 40% showed a Georgia area code of any kind. 18% came from toll-free numbers. Most calls here don't pretend to be local, so a familiar area code is less of a warning sign than in states where spoofing dominates. How neighbor spoofing works.

What the caller ID showed

  • The resident's own area code9,10031%
  • Another Georgia area code2,4969%
  • Toll-free number5,33418%
  • Out-of-state area code12,23242%

Area codes on the calls

  • 770 (Georgia)1,9667%
  • 706 (Georgia)1,9357%
  • 404 (Georgia)1,8136%
  • 678 (Georgia)1,7736%
  • 470 (Georgia)1,3014%
  • 8331,0954%

Georgia area codes

Each county is coloured by the area code that holds most of its phone prefixes. Overlay codes share one territory and one colour. Complaint counts are from Georgia residents since Jul 24.

Map of Georgia counties coloured by area code: 706/762, 229, 912, 478, 404/470/678/770/943
Built from NANPA prefix assignments and US Census Bureau county boundaries. Area codes follow exchange boundaries, so county colours are approximate at the edges.
Area codeResidents' complaintsCalls showing it
404 · 470 · 678 · 770 · 94318,2077,064
706 · 7623,8862,391
9121,645842
4781,200606
229901693

Likely campaigns reaching Georgia

13% of Georgia's FTC complaints in the campaign window match one of these statistical groupings: many numbers, the same complaint, the same pattern. They don't identify who is calling.

Georgia complaint volume by year

Unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by Georgia consumers each year. The shape of this curve reflects both actual call volume and how aware consumers are that the FCC complaint centre exists.

Area codes most reported in Georgia

The displayed area code of numbers reported by Georgia consumers — often, but not always, a local code, because spoofing favours familiar-looking numbers.

How the calls reached Georgia

Prerecorded Voice
14,778
Live Voice
10,369
Abandoned Calls
3,193
Text Message
2,583
Autodialed Live Voice Call
157
Email
5
Wireless (cell phone)
20,017
Wired
7,510
Internet (VOIP)
3,577

Numbers Georgia residents reported this month

The numbers Georgia consumers reported most to the FTC's Do Not Call Registry in the last 30 days — 8,131 reports in all, 1,216 of them this week; 78% were described as robocalls. Click a number for what it was reported for.

What Georgia residents were called about this month

  • Other / unspecified
    3,217
  • Debt reduction
    2,309
  • Impostor (government, business, family)
    838
  • No subject given
    507
  • Medical & prescriptions
    504
  • Dropped call / no message
    410
  • Warranties & protection plans
    123
  • Home improvement & cleaning
    53

Numbers most reported to the FCC by Georgia consumers

Ranked by how many Georgia FCC complaints name them, limited to the last five years. A number appearing here means people in Georgia reported receiving calls that displayed it — not that its owner placed them.

Do Not Call protection in Georgia

Georgia formally adopted the FTC's National Do Not Call Registry as its own state list rather than running a separate one, so a single free registration at donotcall.gov covers you. State authorities can still enforce against telemarketers who ignore it, in addition to any federal penalty.

Whatever your state does, the federal National Do Not Call Registry applies, and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act gives you a private right of action against certain unlawful calls. Report unwanted calls at the FCC complaint centre and fraud at ReportFraud.ftc.gov. In Georgia, the Georgia Attorney General also takes consumer complaints about scam calls.

Do Not Call classification per National Association of Attorneys General — history of Do Not Call. This is general information, not legal advice.

Georgia robocall FAQs

What are Georgia robocalls about right now?

Since 2026-07-24, Georgia residents filed 29,162 FTC Do Not Call complaints. The most common named subject was debt reduction, at 30% of complaints, and 78% of callers who answered said the call was a recorded message.

Are spam calls in Georgia using local numbers?

Often. 31% of the calls Georgia residents reported to the FTC showed the resident's own area code, and 40% showed a Georgia area code of any kind; 18% came from toll-free numbers. A local-looking number is no evidence the caller is local.

When do robocalls hit Georgia?

29% of complaints that give a call time describe calls between 10am and 1pm local time as reported.

How many robocall complaints do Georgia residents file?

Georgia consumers have filed 31,118 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC against 27,328 distinct phone numbers, covering 2014-01-02 to 2026-11-03. That is 3.1% of all state-attributed complaints in the dataset, ranking Georgia 11 among US states and territories by complaint volume.

Does Georgia have its own Do Not Call list?

Georgia formally adopted the FTC's National Do Not Call Registry as its own state list rather than running a separate one, so a single free registration at donotcall.gov covers you. State authorities can still enforce against telemarketers who ignore it, in addition to any federal penalty.

Where do the calls reported in Georgia come from?

The FCC records the state the person filing the complaint was in, not where the caller was. Because caller ID is easily spoofed, a call reported in Georgia may have been placed from anywhere in the world and may have displayed a Georgia number that belongs to an uninvolved person. Area code alone tells you nothing reliable about a caller's location.

What kind of calls are reported most in Georgia?

Prerecorded Voice is the most-reported category in Georgia, accounting for 14,778 of the 31,118 complaints (47%). Live Voice is second with 10,369.

Complaint figures from the FCC Consumer Complaint Data Center, imported nightly, and FTC Do Not Call complaints (unverified consumer reports), published every weekday. The state recorded is the state the complainant filed from.