Robocall Statistics 2026: What the FTC, FCC, and FBI Data Actually Shows
The FTC received 5.7 million Consumer Sentinel fraud reports in FY2025, with imposter scams — the category that includes most robocall fraud — as the top reported type. The FTC's National Do Not Call Registry logged 2.6 million DNC-specific complaints. This page aggregates the most current data from the FTC, FCC, and FBI IC3 on robocall volume, fraud losses, and who is being targeted most. All figures are sourced directly from primary government publications.
Note: This page is updated quarterly as new FTC, FCC, and FBI data is released. Last updated: July 2026. Every statistic on this page is directly linked to its primary government source.
How Many Robocalls Are Made Each Year? (Current Estimates)
The short answer is: nobody knows the exact number. The FCC does not publish a single annual robocall volume figure; the FTC's complaint data reflects reported incidents, not total volume.
When you see headlines claiming "50 billion robocalls last year," those figures come from private analytics companies, not the government. What we do know from the FCC's STIR/SHAKEN deployment reports is that while caller ID spoofing has been made more difficult, the total volume of unwanted calls remains a massive strain on the U.S. telecom network.
FTC Consumer Sentinel: Fraud Loss Data by Category (FY2025)
According to the FTC Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book (most recent data covering FY2025), consumers reported losing billions of dollars to fraud.
Imposter scams—which heavily utilize phone calls and robocalls to impersonate the IRS, SSA, Medicare, and well-known businesses—remained the most reported category of fraud. While exact dollar figures vary by quarter, the trend shows phone-initiated fraud consistently leading to the highest median financial losses per victim compared to email or text scams.
Which Age Group Loses the Most Money to Phone Scams?
The FTC's data reveals a stark contrast in how different age groups are affected. While younger adults (ages 20-29) report losing money to fraud more frequently than older adults, when older adults (ages 70-79, and 80+) do lose money, the median loss is significantly higher.
This data explains why scammers specifically target landlines and demographics likely to be retired; the conversion rate might be lower, but the payout per successful scam is devastatingly high.
FTC Do Not Call Complaints: What 2.6M Reports Tell Us
The National Do Not Call Registry Data Book logged over 2.6 million complaints. The vast majority of these complaints involved automated robocalls playing a pre-recorded message rather than live callers.
Top complaint topics consistently include medical and prescription issues (like the Medicare brace scam), reducing debt (credit card rate reduction scams), and energy/solar panel pitches.
FBI IC3: Phone-Based Fraud in the 2024 Internet Crime Report
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) tracks cybercrime, which increasingly overlaps with phone fraud. According to the IC3 Annual Report, call centers operating tech support scams and government impersonation scams continue to exact a heavy toll, particularly on the elderly.
The FBI notes that these scams often begin with an automated robocall or a deceptive pop-up instructing the victim to call a specific number, demonstrating how voice networks remain a critical vector for large-scale fraud operations.
What the Data Means for Android Users
The aggregate data paints a clear picture: relying on the government or the telecom industry to completely stop robocalls is not a viable short-term strategy. STIR/SHAKEN has helped authenticate numbers, but scammers continuously find workarounds.
This explains why on-device blocking matters. Robocallers rotate numbers faster than any blocklist can update. Behavioral analysis — the technology Callro uses — catches the mechanical patterns of mass-dialing that number-based blocking simply misses.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many robocalls are made per day in the United States?
There is no single official government figure for daily robocall volume, as the FCC and FTC track consumer complaints rather than total network traffic. Third-party analytics firms estimate the number to be in the tens of millions per day.
Why hasn't STIR/SHAKEN stopped robocalls?
STIR/SHAKEN verifies that a caller has the right to use the number they are displaying, but it does not evaluate whether the call content is spam. Scammers often use 'gateway providers' or purchase blocks of legitimate numbers to bypass the framework.
Are robocalls increasing or decreasing?
While the implementation of STIR/SHAKEN has reduced certain types of neighborhood spoofing, overall complaints to the FTC regarding imposter scams and robocalls remain consistently high in 2025 and 2026.
What is the most reported type of scam call?
Imposter scams — where the caller pretends to be the government (IRS, SSA, Medicare), a known business, or a family member — are consistently the most reported type of phone fraud according to the FTC Consumer Sentinel Network.
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