Canadial Know Who Called

August 2022 Canadian Spam Call Report

473 spam numbers reported across Canada.

44,561
Numbers in database
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Most active scam type
Ontario
Most targeted province
466
New numbers this month

That is a +6.3% change versus the previous month (445 numbers).

Breakdown by call type

Top 10 most-reported area codes

Area codeRegionNumbers
604Vancouver, BC37
416Toronto, ON28
519Southwestern Ontario27
403Calgary, AB26
514Montréal, QC26
905Greater Toronto Area, ON24
450Greater Montréal, QC21
613Ottawa, ON21
819Québec21
418—20

Province-level breakdown

Province / regionNumbersShare
Ontario15332.3%
Quebec11925.2%
British Columbia6714.2%
Alberta6213.1%
Manitoba204.2%
Nova Scotia / PEI204.2%
Saskatchewan143.0%
New Brunswick122.5%
Newfoundland & Labrador40.8%
Territories20.4%

Most-reported numbers this month

What this means

In August 2022, Canadial recorded 473 reported phone numbers across Canada. Reports were most concentrated in Ontario (32.3% of numbers). We will continue tracking how these patterns shift month over month.

Methodology

Figures cover phone numbers with Canadian area codes and combine complaints filed with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Do Not Call registry (counted by the month of the call) with community reports on Canadial. Numbers are grouped by their three-digit area code to estimate province-level activity; call-type categories come from community reports. These are complaints and reports, not a statistical sample of all Canadian phone traffic. Updated daily.

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