Scam Calls from Area Code 248

Area code 248, covering Oakland County suburbs northwest of Detroit including Royal Oak, Rochester Hills, Farmington Hills, and Livonia, has generated 1,428 complaints across 533 numbers since February 2026, with activity still ongoing as of June 2026. Among the 44 Michigan area codes tracked, it ranks 19th by complaint volume, placing it in the upper half of in-state codes and signaling a sustained, mid-tier threat out of the Detroit metro fringe.

The leading complaint category by volume is dropped calls or no message, with 222 complaints, suggesting widespread robocall probing across the code. Medical and prescriptions scams follow at 166 complaints, and debt-reduction solicitations account for 142 more. Impersonation calls pretending to be government agencies, businesses, or family members contribute another 105 complaints, while home improvement and cleaning pitches account for 28.

The debt-reduction category is driving the most concentrated individual-number activity. 248-247-4395 has drawn 23 complaints and 248-276-8256 has drawn 20, both tagged to that category. A third number, 248-489-9910929, accounts for 17 complaints in the dropped-call category. Together these three numbers alone represent 60 complaints, a notable cluster within a code where most numbers carry far lighter complaint loads.

Several high-complaint numbers carry no category assignment. 248-760-6846 has 22 complaints, 248-278-0890 has 15, 248-720-5649 has 12, and 248-276-8262 has 10. The collective weight of these numbers suggests parallel campaigns operating outside the patterns captured by the dominant categories.

FCC records show 114 live-agent calls against 17 prerecorded and 66 text messages, a delivery mix that points toward operations willing to staff human callers rather than rely solely on automation. That live-call dominance, combined with the concentrated debt and medical complaint clusters and the active unclassified numbers, indicates 248 is being used by multiple distinct operations running simultaneously out of or through the Oakland County footprint.