# Phone spam trends — August 2026

> Reported phone activity in August 2026: 142,902 numbers with observed activity across 85 countries, 135,095 of them newly observed. Top report categories, country movement, and new number-range patterns. Advisory signals, not verdicts.

- Snapshot published: 2026-09-03 — figures are frozen as of that date and never restated.
- Canonical: https://numbers.online/reports/2026-08

## Totals

- Numbers with observed activity: 142,902
- Newly observed this month: 135,095
- Reports across sources: 421,271
- Countries with activity: 85

## Key findings

- In August 2026, 142,902 phone numbers had reported activity across 85 countries, and 135,095 of them were observed for the first time that month.
- The numbers active in August 2026 carried 421,271 reports across all sources — cumulative totals as of the snapshot's publish date, not in-month counts.
- United States had the most numbers with reported activity in August 2026 (115,426), followed by Poland (20,726) and Denmark (2,970).
- Among the countries listed in both the August 2026 and July 2026 snapshots, United States saw the largest increase in active numbers (+20,021) and Lithuania the largest decrease (−4,000).
- The most common report category in August 2026 was Robocall, the dominant category for 64,969 active numbers, ahead of Telemarketing (28,307).
- Numbers newly observed in August 2026 clustered most in the +1 833 range (United States, 2,926 numbers).

## Country movement (vs July 2026)

| Country | Active | New | Change | Top category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 115,426 | 110,950 | +20,021 | Robocall |
| Poland | 20,726 | 20,394 | −721 | Reported activity |
| Denmark | 2,970 | 786 | +756 | Reported activity |
| United Kingdom | 1,318 | 1,079 | −1,511 | Phishing / smishing |
| Portugal | 514 | 454 | −36 | Reported activity |
| Lithuania | 213 | 118 | −4,000 | Phishing / smishing |
| Germany | 204 | 144 | −750 | Reported activity |
| Italy | 196 | 173 | −894 | Reported activity |
| Latvia | 194 | 138 | −61 | Reported activity |
| Estonia | 147 | 96 | −144 | Reported activity |
| Romania | 115 | 50 | −82 | Phishing / smishing |
| Croatia | 91 | 67 | −18 | Reported activity |
| Slovenia | 89 | 61 | +89 | Reported activity |
| France | 74 | 70 | −270 | Reported activity |
| Bulgaria | 67 | 54 | +67 | Reported activity |
| Austria | 47 | 41 | −212 | Reported activity |
| Spain | 46 | 43 | −237 | Reported activity |
| Netherlands | 45 | 29 | −59 | Reported activity |
| India | 43 | 40 | +43 | Reported activity |
| Morocco | 42 | 41 | +42 | Reported activity |

Active = numbers whose observed-activity window overlaps August 2026. Movement compares
publish-time snapshots, never live data.

## What got reported

- Robocall — 64,969 (+459)
- Telemarketing — 28,307 (−1,124)
- Reported activity — 25,520 (−1,409)
- Phishing / smishing — 21,072 (+15,018)
- Debt collection — 1,987 (−553)
- Auto warranty — 702 (+19)
- Harassment — 166 (−639)
- Silent / hang-up — 102 (−237)
- Survey — 41 (−244)
- Ping call — 36 (−479)

Categories are low-confidence labels describing what reporters allege — a supplementary
signal, not established fact.

## New number-range patterns

- United States +1 833 — 2,926
- United States +1 855 — 1,676
- United States +1 877 — 1,642
- United States +1 888 — 1,603
- United States +1 844 — 1,499
- United States +1 866 — 1,399
- United States +1 813 — 1,166
- United States +1 304 — 821
- United States +1 502 — 770
- United States +1 270 — 755
- United States +1 540 — 739
- United States +1 423 — 718

Ranges where numbers newly observed in August 2026 cluster (three or more). A range is
never bad by itself — plenty of legitimate numbers share it.

## Data downloads

- [totals.csv](https://numbers.online/reports/2026-08/data/totals.csv)
- [countries.csv](https://numbers.online/reports/2026-08/data/countries.csv)
- [categories.csv](https://numbers.online/reports/2026-08/data/categories.csv)
- [new-prefixes.csv](https://numbers.online/reports/2026-08/data/new-prefixes.csv)

This month's frozen figures as CSV — aggregates and prefixes only, no individual
phone numbers. Cite as "Numbers Online, Phone spam trends — August 2026".

## Methodology

These figures aggregate our phone-intel corpus: regulator complaint feeds (among them the US FTC Do Not Call and FCC consumer complaint data and several European regulators), our own honeypot number fleet, independent complaint sites we crawl, and reports filed by the Numbers Online community. Only publicly displayable sources are counted, and numbers verified by their owner as personal are excluded throughout.

A number counts as active in a month when its observed-activity window overlaps that calendar month (UTC); newly observed means it first entered our corpus during the month. Activity dates reflect when a source last observed a number — never when we crawled it. Report totals are the cumulative counts our sources carried at publish time, not in-month deltas.

Each month’s figures are snapshotted when the report is published and never restated afterwards, so historical reports stay stable even as the live corpus grows. Month-over-month movement compares one publish-time snapshot with the previous one — never a frozen snapshot with live data.

Everything here is a supplementary signal — advisory, not a verdict on any number or its owner. Category labels are low-confidence and describe what reporters allege, not established fact. A number range is never bad by itself: plenty of legitimate numbers share every prefix shown. No individual phone numbers appear in these reports — aggregates and prefixes only.

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