Robocalls fell significantly in January in 2026, down 5.6% from the previous month and down 18% from the same month in 2025, according to YouMail’s latest Robocall Index report.
The Robocall Index also showed that January’s robocall total was only 3.8% higher than the October 2025 total, which marked a multi-year low.
In January 2026, the report found there were an average of 125.2 million robocalls per day and 1,449 robocalls per second, down from 132.6 million robocalls per day and 1,535 robocalls per second in December 2025.
All categories contributed to the month’s large drop in robocalls, according to the YouMail report. There was an 11% drop in payment reminders and a 3% drop in notifications — two categories in which robocalls are often welcome — and a 4% decrease in scam and unwanted telemarketing calls.
The report found that nearly 2.2 billion telemarketing and scam robocalls still reached consumers, accounting for more than half (57%) of all robocalls during the month.
A scam of particular note, resulting in more than 50,000 robocalls, was one from “Found Cash Now” asking consumers to visit a website claiming it could help them recover unclaimed money from the government. Many of these calls went to consumers who had not consented to receiving such notices.
“It’s encouraging to see January start 2026 with a meaningfully lower number of robocalls than December,” Alex Quilici, YouMail CEO, said in a prepared statement about the report. “This also marks the first four-month period averaging under 4 billion robocalls since April of 2022, nearly four years ago. However, the problem is far from solved.”
Over the past five years, annual robocall volume has consistently remained between approximately 50 billion and 55 billion, according to the Robocall Index. Robocall volume for 2025 totaled 52.5 billion, down a little over 1% from the 2024 total of 52.8 billion.
