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Data report · October 2026

Phone spam trends — October 2026

Reported phone activity in October 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 reportsSeptember 2026
137.9K
Numbers with observed activity
127.6K
Newly observed this month
455.5K
Reports across sources
108
Countries with activity

Key findings

  • In October 2026, 137,924 phone numbers had reported activity across 108 countries, and 127,606 of them were observed for the first time that month.
  • The numbers active in October 2026 carried 455,465 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 October 2026 (107,725), followed by Poland (19,891) and Denmark (3,332).
  • Among the countries listed in both the October 2026 and September 2026 snapshots, United States saw the largest increase in active numbers (+14,341) and Poland the largest decrease (−934).
  • The most common report category in October 2026 was Robocall, the dominant category for 73,351 active numbers, ahead of Telemarketing (28,729).
  • Numbers newly observed in October 2026 clustered most in the +1 833 range (United States, 3,858 numbers).

Country movement

vs September 2026
107.7K active
102.1K new
+14,341
Robocall
Poland
19.9K active
19.6K new
−934
Reported activity
Denmark
3,332 active
130 new
+133
Reported activity
1,179 active
962 new
−503
Phishing / smishing
Italy
960 active
879 new
+682
Phishing / smishing
Japan
728 active
648 new
+728
Phishing / smishing
Germany
695 active
572 new
+303
Reported activity
Portugal
636 active
560 new
−11
Reported activity
France
306 active
305 new
+227
Phishing / smishing
Spain
293 active
282 new
+232
Phishing / smishing
Lithuania
251 active
148 new
+84
Phishing / smishing
Latvia
227 active
152 new
+15
Reported activity
Estonia
204 active
122 new
+34
Reported activity
Austria
169 active
149 new
+169
Reported activity
Switzerland
169 active
160 new
+169
Reported activity
Croatia
123 active
102 new
+18
Reported activity
Netherlands
120 active
97 new
+82
Reported activity
Slovenia
106 active
61 new
−27
Reported activity
Bulgaria
94 active
70 new
−5
Reported activity
Brazil
92 active
88 new
+92
Phishing / smishing
Active = numbers whose observed-activity window overlaps October 2026. Movement compares publish-time snapshots, never live data. Country pages: browse the corpus.

What got reported

Robocall+8,50573,351
Telemarketing+3,24128,729
Reported activity−50725,517
Phishing / smishing+2,8385,378
Debt collection+4782,543
Auto warranty+177723
Harassment+457672
Prize / lottery scam+333333
Ping call+210233
Survey+182223
Silent / hang-up+39199
IRS / tax scam+1818
Categories are low-confidence labels describing what reporters allege — a supplementary signal, not established fact.

New number-range patterns

+1 8333,858+1 8661,894+1 8551,858+1 8881,798+1 8771,780+1 8441,514+1 813730+1 804710+1 502669+1 904623+1 202598+1 817597
Ranges where numbers newly observed in October 2026 cluster (three or more). A range is never bad by itself — plenty of legitimate numbers share it.
Snapshot published November 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 — October 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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