Here’s Who Keeps Sending Robocalls To South Cook County

SOUTH COOK COUNTY, IL -- If you feel like your phone has been blowing up with annoying robocalls, you’re not imagining things. According to the robocall blocker YouMail, pre-recorded phone messages are at an all-time high. In fact, Illinois landed in the six spot of the top 20 most robocalled states.

Technology has made robocalls cheap and easy to make with more scammers entering the market every day, phishing for your personal information or trying to sell you cheap junk.

Here’s how that breaks down in South Cook County:

• Area code: 708
• Total robocalls:19.5 million
• Population affected: 1.7 million
• Average calls per person: 11.2
• top ten robocallers last month:

1. 800-955-6600, debt collector, Capital One Payments
2. 866-890-3387, bank/debt collection, First Premier Bank
3. 800-266-2278, debt collection, Comcast Customer Service/Bill
4. 980-242-3698, spam call, health insurance spam
5. 773-273-6136, spam call, health insurance spam
6. 866-718-4777, prison scam, Securus Inmate
7. 973-854-0915, scam call, Real Estate Telemarketing Purchase
8. 517-219-1107, portfolio recovery, financial lender
9. 970-660-5232, real estate agent scam, Real Estate Lead Service
10. 800-321-9637, auto loan debt collection, Exter Debt Collection

With more than 384 million received robocalls, California earned the top spot for most robocalled state, followed by Texas with 363.3 million.

Here are the states that received the most robocalls, as well as how many they received:

1. California, 384.4 million
2. Texas, 363.3 million
3. Florida, 261.1 million
4. Georgia, 213.6 million
5. New York, 207.8 million
6. Illinois, 134.6 million
7. Ohio, 115.8 million
8. Pennsylvania, 115.4 million
9. North Carolina, 111 million
10. Louisiana, 97.6 million
11. Michigan, 89.7 million
12. Tennessee, 88.3 million
13. New Jersey, 84.3 million
14. Virginia, 83 million
15. Maryland, 79 million
16. Alabama, 77.9 million
17. South Carolina, 64.4 million
18. Arizona, 60 million
19. Missouri, 51.7 million
20. Indiana, 51 million

Atlanta received the dubious honor of most robocalled city in America for the 29th straight month. People in that city received nearly 148 million robocalls last month and three Atlanta area codes cracked the top 20 most robocalled area code list.