Robocalls in South Carolina

South Carolina consumers have filed 12,076 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC against 11,142 different phone numbers between 2014-08-01 and 2026-09-09 — 1.2% of all state-attributed complaints, ranking 26 nationally. Complaints in the last 12 months are down 2% on the 12 months before that.

12,076

FCC complaints

5,385

FTC DNC reports

3,555

FTC reports, last 30 days

#26

National rank (FCC)

South Carolina complaint volume by year

Unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by South Carolina 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 South Carolina

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

How the calls reached South Carolina

Prerecorded Voice: 5,291
Live Voice: 4,512
Abandoned Calls: 1,325
Text Message: 850
Autodialed Live Voice Call: 69
Email: 1

Wireless (cell phone): 7,006
Wired: 3,278
Internet (VOIP): 1,783

Numbers South Carolina residents reported this month

The numbers South Carolina consumers reported most to the FTC's Do Not Call Registry in the last 30 days — 3,555 reports in all, 510 of them this week; 74% were described as robocalls. Click a number for what it was reported for.

What South Carolina residents were called about this month

Other / unspecified
1,242
Debt reduction
913
Impostor (government, business, family)
537
Dropped call / no message
250
Medical & prescriptions
243
No subject given
209
Warranties & protection plans
51
Home improvement & cleaning
29

Numbers most reported to the FCC by South Carolina consumers

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

Do Not Call protection in South Carolina

South Carolina does not run its own Do Not Call registry and has not formally adopted the federal list as a state list. The federal National Do Not Call Registry at donotcall.gov still applies to you — register there, free, and it never expires.

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.

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

South Carolina robocall FAQs

How many robocall complaints do South Carolina residents file?

South Carolina consumers have filed 12,076 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC against 11,142 distinct phone numbers, covering 2014-08-01 to 2026-09-09. That is 1.2% of all state-attributed complaints in the dataset, ranking South Carolina 26 among US states and territories by complaint volume.

Does South Carolina have its own Do Not Call list?

Where do the calls reported in South Carolina 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 South Carolina may have been placed from anywhere in the world and may have displayed a South Carolina 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 South Carolina?

Prerecorded Voice is the most-reported category in South Carolina, accounting for 5,291 of the 12,076 complaints (44%). Live Voice is second with 4,512.

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.