U.S. consumers received 52.5 billion robocalls in 2025, according to the YouMail Robocall Index. That is roughly 4 billion calls a month, and the pace held into 2026 with 4.3 billion robocalls in June alone, about 141.9 million per day or 13 per person (YouMail Robocall Index, June 2026). Unwanted telemarketing and scam calls made up 57 percent of the 2025 total, up from 49 percent a year earlier (YouMail Robocall Index, 2025). The money at stake is larger still: the FTC logged $15.9 billion in reported fraud losses in 2025, while Gallup and the Stop Scams Alliance estimate the true figure near $68 billion. This analysis consolidates data from YouMail, the FTC, the FBI, Truecaller, Hiya, the FCC, and 7 other primary sources published in 2025 and 2026.
TL;DR
- U.S. consumers received 52.5 billion robocalls in 2025, essentially flat versus 52.8 billion in 2024 (YouMail Robocall Index, 2025).
- At the December 2025 peak, robocalls arrived at 1,627 per second (YouMail Robocall Index, 2025).
- Total U.S. fraud losses reached a record $15.9 billion across 3 million reports in 2025 (FTC, 2025 fraud data).
- Imposter scams were the top fraud category for the fifth straight year, causing $3.5 billion in losses (FTC, June 2026).
- Gallup and the Stop Scams Alliance estimate $68 billion lost to scams in 2025, or about $186 million every day (Gallup and Stop Scams Alliance, 2026).
- The FBI logged $20.9 billion in internet crime losses in 2025, up 26 percent year over year (FBI IC3, 2025 Internet Crime Report).
- 30 percent of U.S. adults received a deepfake voice call impersonating someone they might trust (Truecaller, 2026 Phone Fraud and AI Threat Survey).
- The U.S. flags 34.9 percent of calls from non-contacts as spam; Indonesia tops the world at 89 percent (Hiya, Global Call Threat Report 2025).
- Adults 60 and older reported $7.7 billion in fraud losses, about a 60 percent increase over 2024 (FBI IC3, 2025).
- The FCC removed more than 1,200 voice providers from its Robocall Mitigation Database in 2025 (FCC Enforcement Bureau, 2025).
- 82 percent of Americans have ignored an important call out of fear it was a scam, up from 59 percent in 2024 (Truecaller, 2026).
1. The Scale: How Many Robocalls Americans Get
Robocall volume has plateaued, not receded. The YouMail Robocall Index count has stayed inside a 50 to 55 billion band for six years, which means the aggressive enforcement wave of 2024 and 2025 mostly held the line rather than shrinking the flood. The composition is what shifted: legitimate notifications and payment reminders fell sharply while scam and telemarketing traffic climbed, so a larger share of what rings is unwanted. At the December 2025 peak, robocalls landed at 1,627 per second.
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Total robocalls, 2025 | 52.5 billion | YouMail Robocall Index, 2025 |
| December 2025 peak rate | 1,627 per second (140.6M/day) | YouMail Robocall Index, 2025 |
| June 2026 volume | 4.3 billion (13.0 per person) | YouMail Robocall Index, June 2026 |
| Telemarketing + scam share, 2025 | 57% (29.6 billion), up from 49% | YouMail Robocall Index, 2025 |
| Notifications vs payment reminders, 2025 | 13.3B (down 13.5%) vs 9.4B (down 19.6%) | YouMail Robocall Index, 2025 |
| Scam + telemarketing monthly average, 2025 | 2.56 billion/month, up 20% YoY | U.S. PIRG, Ringing in Our Fears 2025 |
Context: 31 percent of American adults say they get at least one scam phone call a day (Pew Research Center, cited in U.S. PIRG, Ringing in Our Fears 2025).
2. Global Spam Calls: America Is Not Alone
The U.S. robocall problem is severe but far from the worst. Hiya’s honeypot network flags about one in three American calls from unknown numbers as spam, yet several countries in Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific sit far higher. The gap matters for policy: markets with weak caller-authentication mandates and cheap outbound minutes show spam rates above 40 percent, while the U.S. STIR/SHAKEN regime correlates with a lower, though still large, share. Indonesia tops the world with 89 percent of non-contact calls flagged as spam.
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Global suspected spam calls, 2025 | 12.5B (Q1) rising to 13.7B (Q2), ~150M/day | Hiya, Global Call Threat Report 2025 |
| U.S. non-contact spam rate | 34.9% | Hiya, Global Call Threat Report 2025 |
| Highest spam rates worldwide | Indonesia 89%, Argentina 52%, Hong Kong 48%, Chile 48% | Hiya, Global Call Threat Report 2025 |
| Other high-spam markets | Brazil 44.9%, Spain 43.9%, France 43.0% | Hiya, Global Call Threat Report 2025 |
| Fraud share of spam calls | Hong Kong 10%, Canada ~6% | Hiya, Global Call Threat Report 2025 |
Outlier: Canada’s overall spam rate is lower at 20.9 percent, yet a higher share of its spam is outright fraud, and the U.S. figure has climbed toward the 40 percent band seen across Europe (Hiya, Global Call Threat Report 2025).
3. The Money: What Robocall and Phone Scams Cost
Reported losses undercount the real damage by a wide margin, and even the reported figures are climbing fast. The FTC’s official tally and the FBI’s crime-complaint data both broke records for 2025, yet survey-based estimates that capture unreported cases run three to four times higher. The through-line: a phone call is the most expensive way to get scammed. Phone-initiated fraud carried the highest median loss of any contact method for older victims, and losses that begin with a call keep rising even as call volume flattens. These figures sit alongside the broader cybersecurity loss picture for 2026. Gallup and the Stop Scams Alliance estimate Americans lost $68 billion to scams in 2025, about $186 million every single day.
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Total U.S. reported fraud losses, 2025 | $15.9 billion (3 million reports) | FTC, 2025 fraud data |
| Imposter scam losses, 2025 | $3.5 billion (nearly 1 in 3 fraud reports) | FTC, June 2026 |
| Estimated real scam losses, 2025 | $68 billion / 15 million victims | Gallup and Stop Scams Alliance, 2026 |
| FBI internet crime losses, 2025 | $20.9 billion (up 26% YoY) | FBI IC3, 2025 Internet Crime Report |
| Highest median loss by contact method | Phone calls, $2,210 (older adults) | FTC, Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2024 |
| Average loss among 2025 phone-scam victims | $3,690 | U.S. PIRG, Ringing in Our Fears 2025 |
| Phone-scam losses, H1 2024 to H1 2025 | Up 16% | U.S. PIRG, Ringing in Our Fears 2025 |
Most recent full-survey loss figure: Truecaller’s last complete U.S. loss study put telephone scam losses at $25.4 billion across 56.2 million victims (Truecaller and The Harris Poll, U.S. Spam and Scam Report 2024, covering 2023).
4. AI Voices and Deepfake Robocalls
Synthetic voice turned the phone into the most convincing fraud channel. Regulators moved early: the FCC declared AI-generated voices illegal in robocalls in February 2024, treating them as artificial under the TCPA and requiring prior consent, after a fake President Biden robocall told New Hampshire voters to stay home. The gap between one obvious offender and the broader market is the story: enforcement caught a single political operation, but survey data shows deepfake voice calls now reach a large minority of the public. This is the fraudulent, non-consensual use of the technology, distinct from legitimate, consent-based AI voice cloning of your own voice. For deeper coverage, see the voice-cloning fraud statistics and deepfake statistics roundups. 30 percent of U.S. adults say they received a deepfake voice call impersonating a family member, celebrity, or political figure.
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| FCC ruling on AI voices | Illegal without consent under TCPA (Feb 2024) | FCC Declaratory Ruling, 2024 |
| Fine for the deepfake Biden robocall operative | $6 million (called ~5,000 NH voters) | FCC, 2024 |
| Fine for the carrier that transmitted the calls | $1 million (Lingo Telecom settlement) | FCC, 2024 |
| Adults who received a deepfake voice call | 30% | Truecaller, 2026 Phone Fraud and AI Threat Survey |
| AI-generated share of calls in honeypot data | 1 in 4; 55% of those flagged as fraud | Hiya, State of the Call 2026 |
| Successful scams involving AI or deepfakes, 2025 | 12% | Gallup and Stop Scams Alliance, 2026 |
| Americans reporting a voice-clone scam | About 1 in 10 | Truecaller / industry survey data, 2026 |
Context: among Truecaller respondents who lost money, 53 percent had received a deepfake call, versus 22 percent of those targeted but not defrauded (Truecaller, 2026).
5. Who Gets Hit: Demographics and Older Adults
Older adults lose the most per incident, and the fastest-growing losses are concentrated among them. The reported totals are alarming on their own, but the FTC’s own modeling suggests true elder-fraud losses run an order of magnitude higher than what victims report. Phone calls play an outsized role at the high-dollar end: the larger the loss, the more likely it started with a ringing phone rather than a text or ad. The FTC estimates the real cost of fraud to older adults in 2024 ran between $10.1 billion and $81.5 billion.
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Losses reported by adults 60+, FBI, 2025 | $7.7 billion (about 60% increase) | FBI IC3, 2025 Internet Crime Report |
| Losses reported by older adults, FTC, 2024 | $2.4 billion (up ~4x from $600M in 2020) | FTC, Protecting Older Consumers 2024-2025 |
| Estimated true older-adult fraud cost, 2024 | $10.1 billion to $81.5 billion | FTC, Protecting Older Consumers 2024-2025 |
| Median loss, victims 80 and over | Over $1,600 | FTC, Protecting Older Consumers 2024-2025 |
| Older adults losing $10K+ to imposter scams | 41% first contacted by phone | FTC, Protecting Older Consumers 2024-2025 |
| Older-adult tech support scam losses, 2024 | $159 million | FTC, Protecting Older Consumers 2024-2025 |
Context: Gallup found Black (8 percent) and Hispanic (9 percent) adults, and those without a bachelor’s degree (7 percent), were more likely to report being scammed in 2025 than White adults or degree holders (Gallup and Stop Scams Alliance, 2026).
6. Regulation and Enforcement
Enforcement shifted upstream, from chasing individual scammers to policing the carriers that let their traffic through. The USTelecom Industry Traceback Group and the FCC together pushed foreign-originated illegal calls down sharply and thinned the ranks of non-compliant providers. The result is a paradox: the pipeline is better policed, yet raw complaint volume rose, because the surviving campaigns concentrate on higher-value scam calls. In 2025, fewer than 10 percent of tracebacks ended with a foreign origin, down from about 50 percent in 2020.
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| DNC complaints filed, FY2025 | Over 2.6 million | FTC, National Do Not Call Registry Data Book FY2025 |
| Active numbers on the DNC Registry | Over 258 million | FTC, DNC Data Book FY2025 |
| Robocall complaint increase, FY2025 | Almost 45% year over year | FTC, DNC Data Book FY2025 |
| Providers removed from Robocall Mitigation Database | Over 1,200 | FCC Enforcement Bureau, 2025 |
| Base forfeiture per false RMD filing | $10,000 per violation | FCC, 2026 rules |
| Industry Traceback Group tracebacks to date | Over 25,000 | USTelecom Industry Traceback Group, 2025 |
| Phone companies with full mitigation deployed | 4,084 of 9,200+ | U.S. PIRG, Ringing in Our Fears 2025 |
Context: a bipartisan coalition of 51 state attorneys general launched Operation Robocall Roundup in August 2025, warning 37 voice providers to stop routing illegal robocalls (FCC and state AGs, 2025).
7. Consumer Behavior and Trust
The steepest cost of the robocall era may be behavioral, not financial: people stopped answering. When most unknown calls are spam, ignoring the phone becomes rational, which quietly breaks legitimate communication for banks, clinics, and schools. Trust in the channel is eroding across every market Hiya and Truecaller survey, and a growing share of consumers blame carriers and regulators for losing the arms race against AI-driven fraud. 82 percent of Americans have ignored an important call out of fear it was a scam, up from 59 percent in 2024.
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Ignored an important call out of scam fear | 82% (up from 59% in 2024) | Truecaller, 2026 Phone Fraud and AI Threat Survey |
| Targeted by a scam call or text in past year | 75% | Truecaller, 2026 |
| More concerned about scams than a year ago | 84% | Truecaller, 2026 |
| Say phone spam has gotten worse | 62% | Hiya, State of the Call 2026 |
| Trust in phone calls decreased vs increased | 34% decreased vs 16% increased | Hiya, State of the Call 2026 |
| Ready to switch providers over AI fraud | 38% | Hiya, State of the Call 2026 |
| Time lost screening unwanted calls | 7.6 hours per year (9 min/week) | Hiya, State of the Call 2026 |
Context: 63 percent of Americans still rely only on carrier tools and use no third-party call-protection app (Truecaller, 2026).
Summary: Robocalls And Spam Calls by the Numbers
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Total U.S. robocalls, 2025 | 52.5 billion | YouMail Robocall Index, 2025 |
| Robocalls, June 2026 | 4.3 billion (13 per person) | YouMail Robocall Index, June 2026 |
| Peak robocall rate, December 2025 | 1,627 per second | YouMail Robocall Index, 2025 |
| Telemarketing + scam share of robocalls, 2025 | 57% | YouMail Robocall Index, 2025 |
| Total U.S. reported fraud losses, 2025 | $15.9 billion | FTC, 2025 fraud data |
| Imposter scam losses, 2025 | $3.5 billion | FTC, June 2026 |
| Estimated true scam losses, 2025 | $68 billion | Gallup and Stop Scams Alliance, 2026 |
| FBI internet crime losses, 2025 | $20.9 billion | FBI IC3, 2025 Internet Crime Report |
| Losses by adults 60+, 2025 | $7.7 billion | FBI IC3, 2025 |
| Highest median loss by contact method | Phone, $2,210 (older adults) | FTC, CSN Data Book 2024 |
| Adults who got a deepfake voice call | 30% | Truecaller, 2026 |
| Successful scams involving AI/deepfakes | 12% | Gallup and Stop Scams Alliance, 2026 |
| U.S. non-contact spam rate | 34.9% | Hiya, Global Call Threat Report 2025 |
| Highest national spam rate (Indonesia) | 89% | Hiya, Global Call Threat Report 2025 |
| DNC complaints filed, FY2025 | Over 2.6 million | FTC, DNC Data Book FY2025 |
| Providers removed from RMD, 2025 | Over 1,200 | FCC Enforcement Bureau, 2025 |
| Tracebacks with foreign origin, 2025 | Under 10% (was ~50% in 2020) | USTelecom ITG, 2025 |
| Ignored an important call over scam fear | 82% | Truecaller, 2026 |
| Say phone spam has gotten worse | 62% | Hiya, State of the Call 2026 |
| Time lost screening calls per year | 7.6 hours | Hiya, State of the Call 2026 |
Methodology and Sources
Data was gathered from primary reports, government datasets, and named vendor research published in 2025 and 2026, cross-referenced across multiple firms where figures overlap, with any pre-2025 data point flagged inline as the most recent available. Every number above appeared in an original report or an official release from the issuing organization.
- YouMail, Robocall Index (2025 annual results and 2026 monthly data)
- Federal Trade Commission, National Do Not Call Registry Data Book FY2025 (2025)
- Federal Trade Commission, imposter scams and 2025 fraud data (2026)
- Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2024 (2025)
- Federal Trade Commission, Protecting Older Consumers 2024-2025 report to Congress (2025)
- FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, 2025 Internet Crime Report (2026)
- Gallup and the Stop Scams Alliance, United States of Scams: The Financial and Emotional Fallout (2026)
- Truecaller, 2026 Phone Fraud and AI Threat Survey, conducted by Centiment (2026)
- Truecaller and The Harris Poll, U.S. Spam and Scam Report 2024 (covering 2023)
- Hiya, State of the Call 2026 and Global Call Threat Report 2025
- FCC, Declaratory Ruling making AI-generated voices illegal in robocalls (2024) and $6M fine for the New Hampshire deepfake robocalls (2024)
- USTelecom, Industry Traceback Group and ITG traceback observations 2025 via TransNexus (2026)
- U.S. PIRG Education Fund, Ringing in Our Fears 2025 (2025)
- Pew Research Center, scam-call frequency data (cited via U.S. PIRG, 2025)
Data watch: YouMail’s Robocall Index publishes a full-year summary each January alongside its monthly counts, so a 2026 full-year total is expected in early 2027 and will be folded in here. The FBI’s IC3 Internet Crime Report, the FTC’s Do Not Call Registry Data Book, and U.S. PIRG’s Ringing in Our Fears report are also annual releases, with next editions due roughly a year after the ones cited above.
Last updated: July 5, 2026.
We review and update this page quarterly as new data is published.