Canadial Know Who Called

August 2023 Canadian Spam Call Report

200 spam numbers reported across Canada.

44,561
Numbers in database
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Most active scam type
Ontario
Most targeted province
193
New numbers this month

That is a -28.1% change versus the previous month (278 numbers).

Breakdown by call type

Top 10 most-reported area codes

Area codeRegionNumbers
647Toronto, ON16
437Toronto, ON12
604Vancouver, BC11
819Québec10
416Toronto, ON9
778Vancouver, BC9
204Manitoba8
514Montréal, QC7
519Southwestern Ontario7
825Alberta7

Province-level breakdown

Province / regionNumbersShare
Ontario8241.0%
Quebec3417.0%
British Columbia3316.5%
Alberta2412.0%
Saskatchewan105.0%
Manitoba94.5%
Nova Scotia / PEI42.0%
New Brunswick21.0%
Newfoundland & Labrador10.5%
Territories10.5%

Most-reported numbers this month

What this means

In August 2023, Canadial recorded 200 reported phone numbers across Canada. Reports were most concentrated in Ontario (41.0% 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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