Robocalls decreased on a month-to-month basis in June, but rose on a year-to-year basis, according to YouMail’s latest Robocall Index report.
U.S. consumers received just over 4.4 billion robocalls during the month, a 7.6% decrease from May, but up 8.2% from June 2024. During the first half of the year, there were 28.2 billion robocalls, up 10.6% from the first half of 2024.
“The last few months have been down from 2025 peaks, but overall, the year is on pace to exceed 2024’s volumes by more than 10%,” said YouMail CEO Alex Quilici in a prepared statement about the robocalls report. “This is why consumers feel like robocalls are an annoyance again, because they are.”
YouMail also reported that:
- June averaged 148.8 million robocalls per day and 1,722 robocalls per second, down 4.5% from May’s average of 165 million robocalls per day and 1,803 robocallsper second.
- Scam calls fell 10% in June.
- Telemarketing calls dropped 1.2%.
- June’s 2.7 billion scam and telemarketing robocalls were in line with the number received in April and May.
- Unwanted robocalls now account for roughly 58% of all robocalls each month.
- The most problematic robocalls in June were related to pre-approved consolidation loans.
A look at the April robocalls report shows some additional recent historical trends for the above numbers. In April, robocalls were up compared to March, but scam robocalls declined by a significant amount.
The overall increase was 3% and reached almost 5 billion calls. That was the most since August 2023. The report says that the total for the first four months of the year was approximately 18.9 billion robocalls. That was an increase of 11.39% compared to the first four months of 2024.
