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Data report · July 2026

Phone spam trends — July 2026

Reported phone activity in July 2026, aggregated from regulator complaint feeds, our honeypot fleet, crawled complaint sites, and community reports. Figures were snapshotted at publish time and are never restated. Everything here is a supplementary signal — advisory, not a verdict.

← All reportsAugust 2026
132.1K
Numbers with observed activity
122K
Newly observed this month
466.5K
Reports across sources
138
Countries with activity

Key findings

  • In July 2026, 132,095 phone numbers had reported activity across 138 countries, and 121,988 of them were observed for the first time that month.
  • The numbers active in July 2026 carried 466,476 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 July 2026 (95,405), followed by Poland (21,447) and Lithuania (4,213).
  • The most common report category in July 2026 was Robocall, the dominant category for 64,510 active numbers, ahead of Telemarketing (29,431).
  • Numbers newly observed in July 2026 clustered most in the +1 833 range (United States, 3,267 numbers).

Country movement

first report — no prior month
95.4K active
88.8K new
Robocall
Poland
21.4K active
21.1K new
Reported activity
Lithuania
4,213 active
4,082 new
Phishing / smishing
2,829 active
2,257 new
Phishing / smishing
Denmark
2,214 active
728 new
Reported activity
Italy
1,090 active
887 new
Phishing / smishing
Germany
954 active
726 new
Reported activity
Portugal
550 active
491 new
Reported activity
Japan
492 active
404 new
Phishing / smishing
France
344 active
333 new
Reported activity
Estonia
291 active
250 new
Reported activity
Spain
283 active
265 new
Phishing / smishing
Austria
259 active
234 new
Reported activity
Latvia
255 active
196 new
Reported activity
Romania
197 active
134 new
Phishing / smishing
Switzerland
161 active
154 new
Reported activity
Croatia
109 active
93 new
Reported activity
Brazil
106 active
101 new
Phishing / smishing
Netherlands
104 active
87 new
Reported activity
Sweden
70 active
62 new
Reported activity
Active = numbers whose observed-activity window overlaps July 2026. Movement compares publish-time snapshots, never live data. Country pages: browse the corpus.

What got reported

Robocall64,510
Telemarketing29,431
Reported activity26,929
Phishing / smishing6,054
Debt collection2,540
Harassment805
Auto warranty683
Ping call515
Silent / hang-up339
Survey285
IRS / tax scam4
Categories are low-confidence labels describing what reporters allege — a supplementary signal, not established fact.

New number-range patterns

+1 8333,267+1 8441,702+1 8551,694+1 8771,485+1 8661,359+1 8881,217+1 813976+1 304962+1 502853+1 270779+1 303759+1 434694
Ranges where numbers newly observed in July 2026 cluster (three or more). A range is never bad by itself — plenty of legitimate numbers share it.
Snapshot published August 18, 2026. Figures are frozen as of that date.

Data downloads

This month’s frozen figures as CSV — aggregates and prefixes only, no individual phone numbers. Cite as “Numbers Online, Phone spam trends — July 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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