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Here's Who Keeps Sending Robocalls To The East Bay

There were 3.4 billion robocalls in the U.S. last month. Here's who is behind them and how California ranks.

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BAY AREA, CA – 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 -- amounting last month to roughly seven calls for every person who resides in the 510 and 925 area codes.

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.

With more than 384 million received robocalls, California earned the top spot for most robocalled state, and the San Francisco Bay Area, along with Los Angeles, made the top 10 list for the most robocalled cities in the U.S.

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Here's how that breaks down for one month -- April 2018 -- in the Bay Area in area codes 925, 707, 415, 650, 408, 510 and 831. (While the 628 and 669 areas received robocalls, the zones were not large enough to provide conclusive data, YouMail said.)

  • Area code: 510
    • Total robocalls: 13.4 million
    • Population affected: 1.8 million
    • Average calls per person: 7.6
    • Among the Top 10 robocallers last month:

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  • Area code: 925
    • Total robocalls: 7.6 million
    • Population affected: 1.1 million
    • Average calls per person: 6.6
    • Among the Top 10 robocallers last month:

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  • Area code 415
    • Total robocalls: 11.7 million
    • Population affected: 1.1 million
    • Average calls per person: 10.9
  • Among the Top 10 robocallers last month:
  • 415-614-7382 Mortgage Loan Spam/ Unknown Robocaller
  • 415-852-5900 Chinese Language Robo-call/ Unknown Robocaller
  • 213-306-1507 Business Loan Approved Scam/ Business Loan Scam
  • 973-854-0915 Real Estate Purchase Spam/ Real Estate Telemarketing
  • 800-942-3767 Substitute Teacher Notification/ Job Availability Call

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  • Area code: 650
    • Total robocalls: 6.2 million
    • Population affected: 1.2 million
    • Average calls per person: 5.3
    • Among the Top 10 robocallers last month:

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  • Area code: 707
    • Total robocalls: 8.5 million
    • Population affected: 1.3 million
    • Average calls per person: 6.4
    • Among the Top 10 robocallers last month:

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  • Area code: 408
    • Total robocalls: 13.1 million
    • Population affected: 1.7 million
      • Average calls per person: 7.5
      • Among the Top 10 robocallers last month:

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    • Area code: 831
      • Total robocalls: 3.9 million
      • Population affected: 703,000
      • Average calls per person: 5.5
      • Among the Top 10 robocallers last month:

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    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/Photo credit: Shutterstock

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