Reporting data
Two federal agencies take complaints about unwanted calls. This page tracks both, week by week, from their own published releases. It measures who chose to file a report. It does not measure how many calls were placed, and it establishes nothing about any caller.
45 complete weeks, August 25, 2025 to August 23, 2026. Each panel keeps its own vertical scale: the two agencies run separate intake systems about 21.5× apart in volume, so they are shown side by side and never added together.
FTC Do Not Call reports
FCC unwanted-call complaints
| Week beginning | FTC reports | FCC complaints | FTC recorded-voice share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 59,828 | 3,377 | 67% | |
| 58,657 | 3,307 | 68% | |
| 55,651 | 3,092 | 68% | |
| 58,127 | 3,302 | 69% | |
| 58,164 | 3,343 | 68% | |
| 56,482 | 3,049 | 68% | |
| 54,150 | 3,057 | 68% | |
| 45,740 | 2,406 | 68% | |
| 56,497 | 2,927 | 68% | |
| 52,465 | 2,692 | 69% | |
| 52,953 | 2,607 | 69% | |
| 52,436 | 2,513 | 69% | |
| 46,617 | 2,027 | 73% | |
| 63,201 | 2,702 | 72% | |
| 62,487 | 2,530 | 71% | |
| 47,595 | 2,349 | 70% | |
| 57,670 | 2,414 | 69% | |
| 57,063 | 2,374 | 68% | |
| 56,583 | 2,406 | 69% | |
| 56,685 | 2,549 | 69% | |
| 56,303 | 2,487 | 69% | |
| 58,876 | 2,454 | 69% | |
| 64,480 | 2,521 | 71% | |
| 62,586 | 2,515 | 70% | |
| 58,915 | 2,371 | 69% | |
| 59,805 | 2,363 | 68% | |
| 61,912 | 2,579 | 69% | |
| 63,480 | 2,705 | 69% | |
| 52,616 | 2,975 | 70% | |
| 67,394 | 2,890 | 71% | |
| 66,228 | 2,779 | 72% | |
| 66,552 | 2,943 | 72% | |
| 59,331 | 2,659 | 72% | |
| 31,055 | 1,603 | 71% | |
| 29,395 | 1,265 | 75% | |
| 41,685 | 2,316 | 72% | |
| 55,446 | 2,605 | 71% | |
| 69,300 | 3,063 | 71% | |
| 49,500 | 2,131 | 72% | |
| 73,881 | 2,974 | 71% | |
| 60,907 | 2,850 | 68% | |
| 64,537 | 2,942 | 68% | |
| 59,708 | 2,484 | 67% | |
| 53,867 | 2,439 | 68% | |
| 66,408 | 3,280 | 69% |
Each day as a share of its own week, averaged across all 45 weeks. Normalising this way is what lets two series of very different size share one axis.
FTC Do Not CallFCC unwanted calls
| Day | FTC | FCC |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 16.5% | 16.3% |
| Tuesday | 19.1% | 19.0% |
| Wednesday | 19.7% | 18.7% |
| Thursday | 17.8% | 18.2% |
| Friday | 17.8% | 17.7% |
| Saturday | 6.5% | 6.6% |
| Sunday | 2.8% | 3.6% |
What the two series show together
Reports fall sharply every Saturday and Sunday. That pattern could mean fewer calls are placed at the weekend, or it could mean fewer people sit down to file a complaint. One agency's data cannot tell the difference.
Two can. The FTC and the FCC run separate systems, with different forms, different audiences and about a 21.5× gap in volume. Across 45 weeks their daily shape is nearly identical — a correlation of 0.9981 between the share of each week landing on a given day at one agency and at the other.
Weekly totals are a different story. Those move much more independently, correlating at only 0.6806. So the two agencies agree closely about the rhythm within a week and much less about the level from week to week. The most economical reading is that the weekly rhythm is a fact about human filing behaviour, shared by anyone who runs a complaint form, while week-to-week swings reflect each agency's own traffic. Neither pattern is evidence about when calls are actually placed.
Read the chart with confidence
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Published agency releases only. FTC figures come from the Do Not Call daily data files; FCC figures come from the Consumer Complaints dataset filtered to unwanted calls. Nothing here originates with this site, and no reader submits anything — there is no form on this website.
02
FTC activity is grouped by the date the consumer's report was created, taken from the daily releases. FCC activity is grouped by date_created on the complaint ticket. These are similar but not the same field, which is one reason the two series are never added together.
03
Complaint volume does not verify who called, what they intended, whether anyone did anything wrong, or whether any law was broken. It is a measure of reporting activity, not a finding. Neither agency verifies the reports it receives.
The FTC publishes one file per weekday, and weekend data arrives the following Monday or later. A week pulled too early is short, and a four-day week plotted beside seven-day weeks reads as a collapse in reports that never happened. Only weeks with all seven days released are charted. Currently excluded on that basis: September 29, 2025, November 10, 2025, August 24, 2026.
A separate gap sits inside the range. The FTC published no Do Not Call files at all for 5 weeks — every daily file for October 6, 2025 through November 3, 2025 is absent from its data page rather than empty. Those weeks are missing from the chart because nothing was released to chart, and the line is spaced by date so the gap reads as a gap rather than closing over itself.
Figures are refreshed when the weekly analysis is written. Last rebuilt .
Week by week
Each week gets its own write-up: what the totals were, what people said the calls were about, where reports concentrated, and what the numbers cannot support.
Sources and attribution
FTC Do Not Call reported calls
The FTC states that none of the information about these reported calls is verified. These are consumer reports, not findings of fact or of any violation. Counts reflect what consumers chose to report, which is shaped by who reports and how, and is not a measure of total call volume.
Spam Text Relief is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission.
FCC Consumer Complaints Data, Unwanted Calls
These complaints were reported by consumers and have not been independently verified by the FCC. They are reports, not findings of fact or of any violation, and they measure who chose to file rather than how many calls were placed.
Spam Text Relief is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of the Federal Communications Commission.