Scam Calls from Area Code 412

Area code 412, assigned to Pittsburgh and its southwestern Pennsylvania suburbs, has generated 1,031 complaints across 408 numbers since February 2026, with activity still ongoing as of June 2026. That volume places it 21st among 39 Pennsylvania area codes, a mid-tier regional presence that nonetheless reflects a sustained and varied operation rather than a brief burst of dialing.

The single largest complaint category is dropped calls or no message, with 218 complaints, and the top number in the code, 412-533-9224, accounts for 19 of those alone. Dropped-call volume at this scale typically indicates autodialer probing — numbers being tested or handed off before a live agent connects — which makes the underlying campaign harder to characterize but not smaller in reach.

Debt-reduction pitches are the most clearly labeled scam type in the data, drawing 112 complaints. Two numbers are directly tied to that category: 412-296-0097 with 14 complaints and 412-202-5339 with 11. Impersonation of government agencies, businesses, or personal contacts accounts for another 72 complaints, and medical and prescription solicitations add 53 more, suggesting the code is being used across at least three distinct pitch types simultaneously.

Four of the eight highest-complaint numbers — 412-401-7931 at 18, 412-214-8544 at 17, 412-318-8979 at 16, and 412-620-6957 at 13 — carry no complaint category in the data but together represent 64 complaints, enough to constitute a meaningful share of volume on their own. Reported locations cluster around Pittsburgh and Carnegie, Pennsylvania, though complaints also trace back to York, South Carolina and to Florida callers, indicating the 412 prefix is being spoofed well beyond its home geography.

With live-agent calls outnumbering prerecorded ones 74 to 54 across FCC records, and text messages adding another 33 contacts, this code is running a mixed-mode operation that adapts delivery method to the target. The combination of high dropped-call probing, active debt and impersonation pitches, and wide geographic spoofing points to an operation using Pittsburgh's recognizable local prefix as cover while serving a much broader dialing campaign.