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AnyScam™ Scam Search & Reporting

Twelve Years of Data

For more than twelve years, scam victims and volunteers reported the phone numbers, email addresses, names, and profiles that scammers used against them on AnyScam.com. That work now lives here, as the SCARS Institute AnyScam Database, rebuilt to make it easier to search, safer to use, and open to new reports.

Before you trust someone you met online, search for their phone number, email address, name, or profile link. You’ll see whether it has been reported to SCARS Institute, how often, and when. You can also read real messages that scammers have sent, with victims’ details removed, so you can learn to recognize their words before they reach you.

Help Protect Others

If a scammer contacted you, report their profile link, email address, or phone number. SCARS Institute staff review every report before it appears in the database.

Please keep in mind that a listing is a report, not proof. Scammers steal real people’s names and photos, and phone numbers pass from one owner to the next, so an innocent person can appear here. If something listed here belongs to you and is listed in error, use the removal request form at the bottom of this page, and we’ll review it. And if nothing turns up in your search, that doesn’t mean someone is safe: scammers change their numbers, addresses, and names constantly.

AnyScam Scam Quick Reporting

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Reports are reviewed by SCARS Institute staff before they appear in the database. Don't include your own name or contact details.

Learn more about reporting these crimes here.

AnyScam Scam Database Search

AnyScam Scam Stats

Phone numbers, by country

United States or Canada67.2%
Ghana6.2%
Nigeria5.8%
United Kingdom5.1%
Philippines1.4%
Malaysia1.1%
South Africa1.0%
Ivory Coast0.8%
India0.8%
France0.7%
All others9.9%

Profiles, by platform

Facebook95.6%
Instagram2.8%
Google+0.8%
Other website0.3%
X (Twitter)0.2%
LinkedIn0.1%
Telegram0.0%
TikTok0.0%
YouTube0.0%
OkCupid0.0%
All others0.1%

Profiles, by the kind of persona

Fake persona: a man46.4%
Fake persona: military18.5%
Fake persona: a woman15.5%
Fake profile13.9%
Real scammer profile3.6%
Real person: a man1.4%
Real person: a woman0.5%
Social media page0.3%
Social media group0.0%

Percentages of reports made to SCARS Institute. Where scammers said they were is often false; identified locations come from investigations.

AnyScam Scam Database Message Examples

Real messages sent by scammers, as reported to SCARS Institute. Victims' names and contact details are removed.

Messages from a scammer · 2023

Where is the fucking $150 gift card you promised?
Steam card ,Aplple card or eBay Ain't a scammer big head Watch your back manI 'm gonna gun you down soon

A scammer’s profile text · 2023

I,m a cute hearted man that loves an outdoor activities
1,80
work : ask
38 years old
Ubication : Broklyn NY
He contacted me through the K-Friends app, then he asked me to write on Whatsapp.He told me that he planned to retire for the year and come to Spain to live. That he already came to Ibiza on vacation. His parents died when he was 14 years old and he grew up with his aunt. He said that his father was from Madrid.

Messages from a scammer · 2023

Fwd: Safe Deposit 19201
Inbox

Carl Meitner
Thu, Mar 23, 3:40 PM (2 days ago)
to me



---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: ---VICTIM REDACTED---
Date: Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 7:36 AM
Subject: Safe Deposit 19201
To: ---VICTIM REDACTED---


Good day, Carl.


Please be aware that USB is in the process of acquiring Credit Suisse and that we have been instructed to notify our clients of any changes. We have been advised, due to the nature of your deposit, to ask if you would like to move the 50 kilos of gold to USB when they take over or if you would like to make alternative arrangements. I'll wait for further instructions from you.

Best Wishes
--

Alexandre Potelle
---REDACTED---
Senior investment advisor
Credit Suisse
Place De Bel-air 2, 1204 Genève,
Switzerland

Scam email · 2023

Kære kunde,
NordPost informerer dig om, at din levering er: ---REDACTED---DK venter stadig på instruktioner fra dig.
________________________________________gebyrer: 29,99 KR
________________________________________25/03/2023
Send min pakke

Messages from a scammer · 2023

THIS IS A BITCOIN SCAMMER AND FAKE BANKING HACKER, HE TALKED ME THAT HE HAS A BIG AMOUNT BITCOIN IN HIS BANK AND HE WILL SELL IT AT NO RATE FOR WHOM HE LIKE

Messages from a scammer · 2023

No I don’t, because I’m not an attorney, I just wanted to verify if you knew her, and this is not my name, well well I am in valleta Malta and I have your so called fiancée, she stole some gold from her boss and tried to run away to you with a fake passport as her passport is with the boss, I was paid to find her and I managed to do that just as her plane was about to take off, I don’t know if you know but Mrs Maria Hernandez is a big name around here and even the police she pays them, she is going to pay me a lot of money to have this lady back and her gold bars, so I don’t know how much you want her back, we can do business, she’s begging me to let her go, but I’m not moved by pleads I’m moved by money, if by the end of tomorrow you don’t comply, I’m giving her back to hernandez. Goodnight. And no, nobody is calling anybody, you want to track us , I’m not stupid.

Messages from a scammer · 2023

こんばんは。
お会いできて嬉しいです。
美しいパリから来ました。
日本の文化と美味しい食べ物が好きです。
日本をもっと知ることができて私も嬉しいです。
よろしくお願いします

Scam email · 2023

---VICTIM REDACTED---
Fri, Sep 9, 2022, 3:47 AM
to me
NOTIFICATION FOR THE COMMISSION OF INCOME TAX

Your account is currently on hold because of an income tax that is meant to be paid by the fund receiver
An income tax is a tax imposed on individuals or entities in respect of the income or profits earned/received by them,
According to the universal banking regulations, this applied commission is to certify the confidential financial safety of the main account owner and also acquire the transaction deposit interest of the fund recipient.
You are hereby demanded to make the payment of $7800 for the income, your account will be placed under restriction until the confirmation of the fee payment is officially verified by the bank management
This payment will be made direct to the bank agent your country
Thank you for choosing Assured Credit bank, your satisfaction I our main priority

A scammer’s profile text · 2023

He said he was a mixed race of Japanese and American, and when I tried to make a video call, he disappeared.

A scammer’s profile text · 2023

He said he was a mixed race of Japanese and American, and when I asked him to make a video call, he disappeared.

AnyScam Scam Database Removal Request

If something listed in the AnyScam Database is yours and is listed in error, tell us here. We'll email you a link to confirm your request, then SCARS Institute staff review it.