Identify the true owner of any South Carolina phone number before paying an upfront fee or agreeing to a medical shipment. Scammers exploit 803 Columbia and 843 Charleston numbers to pose as lenders requiring an upfront processing fee for loan approval, while Medicare brace calls billing your coverage for equipment you never requested are reported across all major area codes. Our database search results may include:
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Numbers with 803 and the overlay 839 serve the South Carolina Midlands, including Columbia, Rock Hill, Sumter, Aiken, and North Augusta. The 803 code is frequently used for terrifying bounty hunter-style debt collection threats and fake Advance America loan approvals requiring iTunes gift card deposits, while 839 is associated with grandparent bail scams using a fictional injured grandson and rude magazine subscription telemarketers. Victims in this region can check reports filed in our 803 phone number lookup, with overlay activity logged in the 839 area code lookup.
Numbers in the 864 reverse phone lookup cover the Upstate region of South Carolina, including Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Greer, and Greenwood, along with overlay 821. This area sees sexually harassing calls targeting female hotel staff and fake Medicare cancer screening swab calls used to commit medical billing fraud.
Across the South Carolina Lowcountry, 843 and overlay 854 reach Charleston, North Charleston, Mount Pleasant, Summerville, and Hilton Head Island. The 843 code is used for Dominion Energy disconnection threats and fake Tidelands Health billing calls demanding payment for free COVID-related services, while 854 sees fake US Treasury callback scams and early-morning medical alarm robocalls. Callers from the Lowcountry have been reported in our 843 phone number lookup, and overlay activity is tracked in the 854 area code phone lookup.
In 2024, South Carolina residents filed 29,033 unwanted call complaints with the FTC, of which 14,672 were robocalls and 11,595 involved live callers. The most reported complaint topics were medical and prescriptions (3,410), reducing debt (2,688), imposters (2,284).
Phone numbers reported as unwanted calls to the FTC by local residents in the last 30 days:
| Phone Number | Complaints | Last Reported |
|---|---|---|
| (855) 357-2205 | ||
| (803) 233-7994 | ||
| (914) 415-5991 | ||
| (877) 578-1953 | ||
| (412) 545-7466 | ||
| (803) 233-2659 | ||
| (855) 563-6008 | ||
| (866) 771-6698 | ||
| (844) 515-1162 | ||
| (877) 556-9255 |
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