Robocalls to U.S. consumers fell 4% between July and August, and 6.1% over the 12 months ending in August, according to YouMail’s latest Robocall Index report.
For the month, robocall activity averaged 133.9 million robocalls per day and 1,550 robocalls per second, down 4% from July’s average of 144 million robocalls per day and 1,666 robocalls per second. The declines were experienced across all categories.
The report said the 4.1 million robocalls received during August were also down 16% from the 2025 peak reached in April.
But it’s not all good news; there were 36.7 billion robocalls in the first eight months of the year, a 7.1% increase over the same period in 2024.
According to the YouMail report, about 60% of robocalls are unwanted. Desired robocalls include things like appointment reminders, financial notifications and customer service alerts.
As in the previous two months, the most problematic robocalls in August were related to various types of loans, particularly payday loan debt relief. A common scam would offer to fix a payday loan problem, then offer a phone number to call for a free consultation.
Scam robocalls regarding other debt issues like tax debt, business loans, and other types of personal debt were also problematic.
The YouMail report said robocalls originate from thousands of different numbers — often making only a few calls from each — and claim to be a specific individual, using various versions of the same basic message, with slight differences in the monthly payment, loan amount, and call to action.
“We’ve now seen four straight months of declining call volume from 2025 peaks,” YouMail CEO Alex Quilici said in a prepared statement about the robocalls report. “That’s good news. The fly in the ointment is that 2025 is still on a pace to exceed 2024’s volumes by more than 7%.”
The robocall decline in August continues a recent trend. U.S. consumers received 3.1% fewer robocalls in July than in June. There were just over 4.3 billion robocalls in July, about the same amount in July 2024.
