Canadial Know Who Called

December 2022 Canadian Spam Call Report

375 spam numbers reported across Canada.

44,561
Numbers in database
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Most active scam type
Ontario
Most targeted province
368
New numbers this month

That is a -32.1% change versus the previous month (552 numbers).

Breakdown by call type

Top 10 most-reported area codes

Area codeRegionNumbers
825Alberta52
613Ottawa, ON42
705Northern Ontario27
905Greater Toronto Area, ON26
519Southwestern Ontario18
647Toronto, ON18
416Toronto, ON14
514Montréal, QC14
204Manitoba11
437Toronto, ON11

Province-level breakdown

Province / regionNumbersShare
Ontario19050.7%
Alberta7219.2%
Quebec5113.6%
British Columbia225.9%
Manitoba112.9%
Nova Scotia / PEI102.7%
Saskatchewan71.9%
New Brunswick51.3%
Newfoundland & Labrador51.3%
Territories20.5%

Most-reported numbers this month

What this means

In December 2022, Canadial recorded 375 reported phone numbers across Canada. Reports were most concentrated in Ontario (50.7% 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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