The Federal Trade Commission today released the National Do Not Call Registry Data Book for Fiscal Year 2022. The FTC’s National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry lets consumers add their phone number and choose not to receive most legal telemarketing calls. In the last fiscal year, over 2.5 million people signed up with the DNC Registry, bringing the total to more than 246 million phone numbers.
Now in its fourteenth year of publication, the Data Book also provides the most recent fiscal year information available on robocall complaints, the types of calls consumers reported to the FTC, and a complete state-by-state analysis.
According to the Data Book, complaints about imposter calls again topped the list, with almost 287,000 received during the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2022, including both live calls and robocalls. In such calls, imposters falsely pose as government representatives, such as the Social Security Administration or the IRS, legitimate business entities, or as people affiliated with them.
FY 2022 Registration and Complaint Data
At the end of FY 2022, the DNC Registry contained 246.8 million actively registered phone numbers, up from 244.3 million at the end of FY 2021. The number of consumer complaints decreased for all topics except for calls about medical and prescription issues, which saw an increase over FY 2021 of more than 1,000 complaints.
In FY 2022, the commission received more than 1.8 million complaints about robocalls, down…
