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publicdatadepot/us-robocall-complaints-by-phone-number

US Robocall Complaints by Phone Number Every phone number that appears in the Federal Trade Commission's Do Not Call complaint files, aggregated to one row per number, and joined to the North American Numbering Plan prefix registry so each number carries its carrier and rate center. 186,474 phone numbers. 213,758 complaint records. Coverage 2016-06-30 to 2026-08-19. Maintained at usacallerlookup.com and mirrored on GitHub (archived on Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21994641).… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/publicdatadepot/us-robocall-complaints-by-phone-number.

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US Robocall Complaints by Phone Number

Every phone number that appears in the Federal Trade Commission's Do Not Call complaint files, aggregated to one row per number, and joined to the North American Numbering Plan prefix registry so each number carries its carrier and rate center.

186,474 phone numbers. 213,758 complaint records. Coverage 2016-06-30 to 2026-08-19.

Maintained at usacallerlookup.com and mirrored on GitHub (archived on Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21994641). Refreshed at the source every weekday; this mirror is refreshed monthly.

The FTC publishes its complaint data daily, but as raw daily drops with one row per complaint and no carrier or geography attached. That format answers almost no question directly. This is the same data reshaped into the form people actually want: one row per number, with counts, dates, how many states reported it, what it was reported for, and who carries the line.

Columns

Column	Meaning
`phone`	10 digit NANP number, digits only
`complaints`	Total complaint records for this number
`robocalls`	Complaints flagged by the reporter as a recorded message
`robocall_pct`	Robocalls as a percentage of complaints
`first_complaint` / `last_complaint`	First and last dates seen in the feed
`states_reporting`	Count of distinct states that reported it
`top_subject`	Most common reported subject for this number
`area_code`	NPA
`rate_center_city` / `rate_center_state`	Rate center the prefix is assigned to
`carrier`	Carrier holding the prefix

Three things to understand before using it

A complaint is not proof of wrongdoing. Each row records that somebody reported a call, nothing more. Numbers appear here for reasons ranging from criminal fraud to a legitimate business calling at a bad hour to plain misdialing.

Caller ID is routinely spoofed. For a large share of these numbers the owner never placed the call. Spoofing is why a number can be reported from 40 states in a week. Treat the number as the string that appeared on a screen, not as an identified caller.

A rate center is not a location. It is where the prefix was assigned, which since number portability and the spread of VoIP often has nothing to do with where the caller or the subscriber is.

Privacy

Aggregated per phone number, deliberately. The source files carry a complainant city and state on every complaint. Neither is published here. Only a count of distinct reporting states survives the aggregation, so no individual complainant can be located.

Source and license

Built from the FTC Do Not Call complaint files and the NANPA prefix registry, both US government works and therefore public domain. Released here under CC0.

Methodology and caveats: usacallerlookup.com/data-sources