Here’s Who Keeps Sending Robocalls To North Carolina

If you think you’re receiving robocalls now more than ever, you’re not wrong. According to the robocall blocker YouMail, pre-recorded phone messages are at an all-time high.

There were 3.36 billion robocalls last month in the U.S., 6.5 percent higher than the previous record and a whopping 34 percent higher than April 2017.

Here’s how that breaks down in the Charlotte metro area:

• Area code: 704
• Total robocalls: 29.4 million
• Population affected: 1.6 million
• Average calls per person: 17.8
• top five robocallers last month:

1. 800-955-6600, Capital One Payments/Collections
2. 980-242-3698, Health Insurance Spam
3. 844-206-9035, Spectrum, Cable Company
4. 919-647-9755, Inmate Caller, Prison Inmate
5. 704-212-2195, Verizon Wireless, Phone Company

Area code: 980

• Total robocalls: 4.5 million
• Population affected: 375,000
• Average calls per person:12.0
• top five robocallers last month:

1. 844-206-9035, Spectrum, Cable Company
2. 919-647-9755, Inmate Caller, Prison Inmate
3. 678-594-4800, Carmax Auto Finance Collection Line
4. 972-512-3472, Synchrony Bank, Bank Debt Collection
5. 877-482-5477, Allied Interstate

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.

Here are the top 10 most robocalled cities:

1. Atlanta, GA
2. Dallas, TX
3. New York, NY
4. Los Angeles, CA
5. Chicago, IL
6. Houston, TX
7. Baltimore, MD
8. Philadelphia, PA
9. San Francisco Bay Area, CA
10. Newark, NJ

The company says 47 of the 50 most robocalled cities in the country saw a higher robocalling volume in April. The increase comes even as lawmakers, consumer groups, telecommunications carriers and device makers pay closer attention to illegal calls.

"Despite the best efforts of regulators, industry groups, service providers, and app developers, we are warning consumers to remain vigilant by not picking up any calls from unfamiliar numbers, using robocall blocking apps, and researching numbers before calling them back," YouMail CEO Alex Quilici said in a release.

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Patch reporter Dan Hampton contributed to this report.

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