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Data report · August 2026

Phone spam trends — August 2026

Reported phone activity in August 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 reportsJuly 2026
142.9K
Numbers with observed activity
135.1K
Newly observed this month
421.3K
Reports across sources
85
Countries with activity

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
115.4K active
111K new
+20,021
Robocall
Poland
20.7K active
20.4K new
−721
Reported activity
Denmark
2,970 active
786 new
+756
Reported activity
1,318 active
1,079 new
−1,511
Phishing / smishing
Portugal
514 active
454 new
−36
Reported activity
Lithuania
213 active
118 new
−4,000
Phishing / smishing
Germany
204 active
144 new
−750
Reported activity
Italy
196 active
173 new
−894
Reported activity
Latvia
194 active
138 new
−61
Reported activity
Estonia
147 active
96 new
−144
Reported activity
Romania
115 active
50 new
−82
Phishing / smishing
Croatia
91 active
67 new
−18
Reported activity
Slovenia
89 active
61 new
+89
Reported activity
France
74 active
70 new
−270
Reported activity
Bulgaria
67 active
54 new
+67
Reported activity
Austria
47 active
41 new
−212
Reported activity
Spain
46 active
43 new
−237
Reported activity
Netherlands
45 active
29 new
−59
Reported activity
India
43 active
40 new
+43
Reported activity
Morocco
42 active
41 new
+42
Reported activity
Active = numbers whose observed-activity window overlaps August 2026. Movement compares publish-time snapshots, never live data. Country pages: browse the corpus.

What got reported

Robocall+45964,969
Telemarketing−1,12428,307
Reported activity−1,40925,520
Phishing / smishing+15,01821,072
Debt collection−5531,987
Auto warranty+19702
Harassment−639166
Silent / hang-up−237102
Survey−24441
Ping call−47936
Categories are low-confidence labels describing what reporters allege — a supplementary signal, not established fact.

New number-range patterns

+1 8332,926+1 8551,676+1 8771,642+1 8881,603+1 8441,499+1 8661,399+1 8131,166+1 304821+1 502770+1 270755+1 540739+1 423718
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.
Snapshot published September 3, 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 — 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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