Phone scam and robocall statistics: Canada and the U.S.

Losses by type of fraud, 2025

Caller ID and call blocking

Scams that started with a phone call, 2024

The FTC's 2025 Consumer Sentinel Data Book, with contact-method detail, wasn't published when this page was checked; these are the latest figures.

National Do Not Call Registry, fiscal 2025

The FTC publishes the phone number in every Do Not Call complaint, one file per weekday. Canadial keeps every file since May 27, 2022 and counts them per number (how). These figures are recomputed every day.

What the complaints were about

Category chosen by the complainant on the FTC form.

Complaints published per month

Valid complaint rows in the FTC files published that month (complete months only).

FTC complainants are mostly in the U.S., but many complaints are about numbers with Canadian area codes. Canadial has complaints or reports about 44,561 Canadian numbers.

How much money do Canadians lose to fraud?

Canadians reported C$704 million in fraud losses to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre in 2025, from 112,000 reports; the CAFC estimates only 5–10 of fraud is reported.

How many robocall complaints are there in the U.S.?

In the U.S., people reported US$15.9 billion lost to fraud in 2025 (FTC), and the FTC received 2,618,077 Do Not Call complaints in fiscal 2025, 61.2% of them about robocalls. The National Do Not Call Registry had 258,515,050 registered numbers at the end of fiscal 2025.

What are robocalls most often about?

In FTC Do Not Call complaints kept by Canadial, the most common named categories are debt relief (14.6%), dropped calls or silence (12.9%), impersonating a government agency, business or relative (9.2%). In the FTC's own fiscal 2025 figures, the top topic was reducing debt (441,430 complaints).

How do I check who called me?

Enter the number on Canadial's homepage, or go to canadial.com/lookup/ followed by the 10 digits, to see its FTC complaints, community reports and who its number block is assigned to.