April’s robocalls were virtually unchanged from the previous month, but were down a significant 14.9% from April 2025, according to the YouMail monthly Robocall Index. However, the daily rate was the highest recorded since July 2025.
Though the number of calls remained virtually unchanged, the daily rate rose 3.3%, which can be attributed to the calendar — April has one less day. In April, there were 140.2 million robocalls per day and 1,623 robocalls per second, down less than 1% from March’s 135.7 million robocalls per day and 1,571 robocalls per second.
A notable shift from March was that April had an 11% increase in telemarketing and spam calls, with notifications falling by a similar percentage. Additionally, telemarketing and scam calls accounted for roughly 60% of all robocalls in April, up from 55% in March.
Unsolicited, pre-approved loan offers were the month’s most problematic robocalls. Of note was a campaign featuring a person claiming to be from an “application processing branch” at an unnamed company, which made tens of thousands of calls.
“It’s encouraging to see six consecutive months averaging around 4 billion robocalls, the lowest sustained level in years,” Alex Quilici, YouMail CEO, said in a prepared statement. “We remain hopeful that volumes will stay at this level. However, it’s starting to feel like robocall activity is creeping back toward last summer’s daily highs.”
The March robocalls had moved up significantly since February — 9.8% — but was down 12.5% from March 2025. The March figure was largest amount of robocalls since July 2025. The increase from February was partially due to March having 10% more days. So the volume based on a daily and per-second basis remained virtually unchanged. March averaged 135.7 million robocalls per day and 1,571 robocalls per second, the report said.
