According to YouMail’s Robocall Index, U.S. consumers received just under 3.8 billion robocalls in October 2025, a 7.7% drop from September and nearly 24% lower than October 2024. This marks the seventh straight month of decline, with call volume now down roughly 24% 1.2 billion from April’s peak.
In fact, the first ten months of 2025 have seen 44.5 billion robocalls, an increase of just under 2% from the same period in 2025.
October’s robocall activity averaged 120.6 million robocalls/day and 1,396 robocalls/second, down 10.7% from September’s average of 135.1 million robocalls/day and 1,564 robocalls/second.
“We’ve seen seven straight months of declining call volume since it peaked earlier this year,” said YouMail CEO Alex Quilici. “But the threat hasn’t gone away. 3.7 billion robocalls still hit consumers every month, and the majority of them are scams or telemarketing calls. Â After all, who hasn’t gotten a sketchy debt relief call this month? On top of that, based on past trends, we expect this number to surge again soon, making protection more critical than ever.”
Roughly 55% of October’s Robocalls Are Unwanted
Another positive takeaway from October’s data is that unwanted robocall volume declined by nearly 18%.
|
Type of Robocall |
Estimated October Robocalls |
Percentage October Robocalls |
|
Notifications |
.97 billion (+5.5%) |
26% (+3%) |
|
Payment Reminders |
.69 billion (-0.5%) |
18% (+1%) |
|
Scams and Telemarketing |
2.1 billion (-17.6%) |
56% (-4%) |
Together, scam and telemarketing calls, which consumers generally want to avoid, dropped from roughly 2.5 billion to roughly 2.1 billion calls, a huge decrease of 400 million calls. That is the lowest number of unwanted calls since October, 2024. They now account for 56% of all robocall volume, down from the 60% they had consistently accounted for over the past 6 months.
October 2025’s  Most Annoying Robocalls
As for much of this year, October’s most annoying robocalls continue to be related to various types of loans, particularly around pre-approved debt relief. These calls, such as those from this number, featured messages like:
Hello, this is Lauren calling from Lending Review Department. I’m the senior underwriter working on your file and I just wanted to give you a quick call as we start the week to follow up on your $58,000 loan approval. From what I can see, everything looks good. We’re basically down to confirming your preferred terms and updated income before I can send the paperwork over. If you’re still interested in moving forward, press 2 now to talk with me or someone on my team. Or you can give us a quick call back at 866-959-0927. If you’re no longer looking for funding, just press 7 and. We’ll get that closed out for you.
The pre-approved loan campaigns are problematic due to their high volume, which is in the hundreds of millions of calls every month. The calls in each campaign originate from thousands of different numbers, including a mix of toll-free and regular numbers, with relatively few calls from each number. The messages consistently claim to be from a specific individual in a particular department, but do not provide the required name of the firm. Most importantly, they are calling numerous individuals that never applied for a loan, nor provided consent for these calls. Together, this behavior is indicative of at best illegal telemarketing and at worst a scam.
The Source of This Data
These data points are provided by YouMail, a free call protection app for mobile phones. YouMail won the American Business Awards’ Gold Stevie Award for Technical Innovation of the Year, and the YouMail app was named the nation’s best robocall-blocking solution in a competition organized by Geoffrey Fowler of the Washington Post.
YouMail blocks unwanted robocallers by making sure the user’s phone doesn’t ring, and then plays an out-of-service message that leads them to think they dialed an invalid number. YouMail identifies problematic numbers and robocalls using a combination of its recently patented audio fingerprinting technology, call patterns, and consumer feedback.
YouMail provides the YouMail Robocall Index to estimate robocall volume across the country and for specific area codes every month. This estimate is formed by extrapolating from the behavior of the billions of calls YouMail has handled for its users, and these statistics are regularly cited by the FCC as a definitive source for national data trends.
To learn more about October’s 3.8 billion robocalls, including rankings, trends, and real message samples, visit the website here.
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