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Robocalls in Virginia

Virginia consumers have filed 33,038 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC against 28,161 different phone numbers between 2014-02-12 and 2026-11-03 — 3.3% of all state-attributed complaints, ranking 9 nationally. Complaints in the last 12 months are up 28% on the 12 months before that.

33,038
FCC complaints
26,017
FTC DNC reports
7,749
FTC reports, last 30 days
#9
National rank (FCC)

What Virginia residents are reporting

26,017 FTC Do Not Call complaints from Virginia since Jul 24. The most common named subject is debt reduction, at 29%. 80% of complainants who answered said the call was a recorded message.

Complaint subjects

  • Other / unspecified10,22639%
  • Debt reduction7,59029%
  • Impostor (government, business, family)2,54810%
  • No subject given1,7857%
  • Dropped call / no message1,3485%
  • Medical & prescriptions1,3265%
  • Home improvement & cleaning3451%

When the calls come (as reported)

28% between 11am and 2pm; 93% on weekdays, most on Mondays.

Week by week

7,841 complaints from Virginia in the last four weeks, up 12% on the four weeks before.

Neighbor spoofing in Virginia

35% of the calls Virginia residents reported showed the resident's own area code, and 42% showed a Virginia area code of any kind. 21% 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 code9,12035%
  • Another Virginia area code1,8027%
  • Toll-free number5,45621%
  • Out-of-state area code9,63937%

Area codes on the calls

  • 757 (Virginia)2,3679%
  • 540 (Virginia)2,1558%
  • 703 (Virginia)1,8457%
  • 804 (Virginia)1,5486%
  • 8331,2375%
  • 434 (Virginia)1,1785%

Virginia 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 Virginia residents since Jul 24.

Map of Virginia counties coloured by area code: 540/826, 686/804, 434, 276, 757/948, 571/703
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
571 · 7037,4423,001
757 · 9485,2082,447
540 · 8264,4582,199
686 · 8043,6861,564
4341,9071,178
276558533

Likely campaigns reaching Virginia

12% of Virginia'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.

Virginia complaint volume by year

Unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by Virginia 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 Virginia

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

How the calls reached Virginia

Prerecorded Voice
15,845
Live Voice
11,071
Abandoned Calls
3,455
Text Message
2,416
Autodialed Live Voice Call
193
Email
6
Wireless (cell phone)
18,007
Wired
11,282
Internet (VOIP)
3,736

Numbers Virginia residents reported this month

The numbers Virginia consumers reported most to the FTC's Do Not Call Registry in the last 30 days — 7,749 reports in all, 1,009 of them this week; 80% were described as robocalls. Click a number for what it was reported for.

What Virginia residents were called about this month

  • Other / unspecified
    3,339
  • Debt reduction
    2,258
  • Impostor (government, business, family)
    661
  • No subject given
    473
  • Medical & prescriptions
    368
  • Dropped call / no message
    333
  • Home improvement & cleaning
    95
  • Warranties & protection plans
    86

Numbers most reported to the FCC by Virginia consumers

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

Do Not Call protection in Virginia

Virginia 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 Virginia, the Virginia 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.

Virginia robocall FAQs

What are Virginia robocalls about right now?

Since 2026-07-24, Virginia residents filed 26,017 FTC Do Not Call complaints. The most common named subject was debt reduction, at 29% of complaints, and 80% of callers who answered said the call was a recorded message.

Are spam calls in Virginia using local numbers?

Often. 35% of the calls Virginia residents reported to the FTC showed the resident's own area code, and 42% showed a Virginia area code of any kind; 21% came from toll-free numbers. A local-looking number is no evidence the caller is local.

When do robocalls hit Virginia?

28% of complaints that give a call time describe calls between 11am and 2pm local time as reported.

How many robocall complaints do Virginia residents file?

Virginia consumers have filed 33,038 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC against 28,161 distinct phone numbers, covering 2014-02-12 to 2026-11-03. That is 3.3% of all state-attributed complaints in the dataset, ranking Virginia 9 among US states and territories by complaint volume.

Does Virginia have its own Do Not Call list?

Virginia 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 Virginia 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 Virginia may have been placed from anywhere in the world and may have displayed a Virginia 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 Virginia?

Prerecorded Voice is the most-reported category in Virginia, accounting for 15,845 of the 33,038 complaints (48%). Live Voice is second with 11,071.

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.