Scam Calls from Area Code 504

Area code 504, rooted in the New Orleans metro and spanning communities including Belle Chasse, Metairie, and Baton Rouge, has generated 785 complaints across 306 numbers since February 2026, with activity still ongoing as of June 2026. Within Louisiana's 39 tracked area codes, 504 ranks 23rd by complaint volume — a mid-tier position that nonetheless reflects a sustained and varied scam operation running across multiple call types.

The single most active number in this dataset, 504-481-8700, has drawn 81 complaints on its own — more than 10 percent of the code's total volume — making it the clear outlier in a field where most numbers register in the single digits. No category has been assigned to that number, nor to 504-399-5725 (12 complaints), 504-584-4096, 504-946-4872, 504-336-6419, and 504-504-3981 (6 complaints each). Taken together, these uncategorized numbers account for a substantial slice of the complaint load, suggesting either rapid rotation before classification or deliberate evasion of known call patterns.

Among the categorized activity, impersonation calls — the "pretending to be government, businesses, or family and friends" bucket — lead at 72 complaints, tied exactly with dropped-call or silent-call complaints, also at 72. That tie is notable: dropped and silent calls are frequently used as line-verification probes ahead of a more targeted campaign, so the parallel volume hints at an active targeting layer running alongside the impersonation effort. Medical and prescription scams follow at 53 complaints, debt-reduction pitches (covering credit cards, mortgages, and student loans) at 51, and warranty or protection-plan calls at 12. Two numbers, 504-300-0965 and 504-229-0789, are confirmed in the impersonation category with 8 and 6 complaints respectively.

FCC filings tied to this code are modest at 7 records, but the mode breakdown — 20 live-agent contacts versus 14 prerecorded — indicates that a meaningful share of these calls involve real callers rather than robocall automation alone. Complaint origins extend beyond Louisiana into Colorado (including Alamosa) and Florida, suggesting the numbers are not limiting themselves to local targets despite carrying a New Orleans-area prefix.

The threat picture here is one of deliberate breadth: a high-complaint anchor number operating without a clear category label, a parallel silent-call operation that likely feeds downstream targeting, and active impersonation and medical-scam streams running concurrently. The geographic spread into Colorado and Florida, combined with ongoing recency, points to an operation that is still expanding its reach rather than winding down.