Scam Calls from Area Code 508

Area code 508, covering southeastern Massachusetts with complaint origins concentrated in Worcester, Plymouth, and Seekonk, has generated 987 complaints across 432 distinct numbers since February 2026, with activity still ongoing as of June 2026. Among Massachusetts area codes it ranks 19th out of 39, placing it in the upper half of the state's scam-call load despite sitting at position 201 of 358 nationally — a gap that suggests the pressure is regionally concentrated rather than nationally dominant.

The single largest complaint category is dropped calls or no message, with 182 complaints, a pattern consistent with robodialers probing for live recipients before connecting a scammer. FCC records reinforce this: prerecorded contacts logged at 122 instances outpace live-agent contacts at 57. Two numbers — 508-552-2037 with 13 complaints and 508-690-4080 with 7 — are the leading contributors to that dropped-call volume, indicating persistent automated dialing from specific lines rather than one-off spoofing.

Impersonation calls account for 99 complaints, the second-heaviest category, followed closely by debt-reduction pitches at 77 complaints and medical and prescription solicitations at 68. Three numbers share the medical category among the top reported lines: 508-245-7492, 508-803-4391, and 508-279-4500, each drawing 7 complaints. That clustering across separate numbers in the same niche points to a coordinated campaign rather than isolated callers.

The highest-complaint single number in the dataset is 508-281-2567, with 15 complaints tied to work-from-home and money-making schemes. Number 508-232-3309 carries 7 complaints with no category on record. Energy, solar, and utilities pitches add another 24 complaints, and vacation and timeshare solicitations appear through 508-342-5591 with 7 complaints, showing the code is not dominated by one script but is being used across a wide scam portfolio simultaneously.

Complaint origins extending to Summerville, South Carolina and Port St. Lucie, Florida alongside the Massachusetts core suggest either spoofing of the 508 prefix by out-of-state operations or call recipients in those states being targeted by numbers routed through the code. With activity continuous across a five-month window and no sign of tapering, 508 presents as an actively exploited regional prefix carrying parallel campaigns in impersonation, medical solicitation, and automated hang-up probing — a combination that typically signals infrastructure shared among multiple fraud operations.