Scam Calls from Area Code 409

Impersonation calls overwhelm area code 409, a southeast Texas code covering Beaumont, Vidor, and Woodville, accounting for 125 of the categorized complaints filed against numbers in this code. That single category dwarfs everything else in the data, with debt-reduction pitches a distant second at 53 complaints and dropped or silent calls at 36. Medical and prescription solicitations added 19 more complaints, and home improvement and cleaning calls contributed 6.

The heaviest single source is 409-761-7631, which has drawn 85 complaints under the impersonation category alone, making it by far the most-reported number in the code. At that volume it accounts for nearly 18 percent of the code's 470 total complaints across 168 numbers. The next busiest number, 409-218-5453, has 40 complaints on record but no assigned category, and 409-222-7103 follows with 11 complaints, also uncategorized. Together those two unclassified numbers represent a meaningful share of activity that the complaint data does not fully characterize.

Geographically, complaints trace back to Texas locations including Beaumont and Houston, but also reach Port Orchard, Washington and draw reporters from California, suggesting callers spoofing 409 numbers are reaching well outside the code's native footprint. The FCC holds 6 records tied to this code, and the overwhelming delivery mode is live callers rather than prerecorded messages, with 161 live-call reports against just 1 robocall, which is consistent with high-volume impersonation operations that rely on real agents to adapt to targets in real time.

Activity in 409 has been ongoing since February 2026 with reports as recent as June 2026. The concentration of 85 complaints on a single impersonation number, combined with a cluster of high-volume uncategorized numbers, points to an organized operation rather than scattered individual actors. With live agents driving nearly all contacts and the code ranked 31st out of 39 Texas area codes by complaint volume, the pressure on this code is not yet at its peak, but the impersonation infrastructure already in place gives it meaningful potential for escalation.