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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.

A scammer’s profile text · 2023

Perfil falso del dr.erkan yildirim en Facebook. Instagram y tiktok.

Scam email · 2023

How are you doing today and how is the weather condition over there I want you to send me your Gmail address so that we can communicate on Google chat I'm not always here on Facebook due to my job thank you ---REDACTED---

Found this on ---LINK REDACTED---

Messages from a scammer · 2023

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A scammer’s profile text · 2023

Typical messages she would ask for her allowance, a set amount we agreed upon for support. Then a few days or week later she would ask for more, then again and again until she had more than doubled her allowance. I foolishly trusted her. I later learned all that extra money was going for the illicit affair with John Matthew Pattugalan , her co-worker boss at Need Ink Sales and Services in nearby Tuguegararao City. Jenalyn now works for Need Ink Sales and Services in Calamba City south of Manila.

Messages from a scammer · 2023

In typical messages Jenalyn would ask for her allowance, a set amount we had agreed upon for her support. Then a few days or a week later she would ask for more, then again and again until she had more than doubled her allowance. I foolishly trusted Jenalyn. I have now learned that all that money was going for Jenalyn Lamer Legaspi's illicit affair with her co-worker boss, John Matthew Pattugalan, at Need Ink Sales and Services in nearby Tuguegarao City.

Scam email · 2023

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Congratulations, we are pleased to announce that you have been selected to receive the amount of $2,000,000.00 from the Clay Tousey Relief Fund. My name is Clay Tousey, who won $ 285.6 million June, 5.
2021 in the Power Ball Lottery jackpot. Contact me for more
information: ---REDACTED---

Scam email · 2023

Vi er Joe og Jess Thwaite fra Storbritannien, og vi vandt rekordstore £---REDACTED--- i Storbritanniens største EuroMillions-lotteri nogensinde den 10. maj 2022.
Vi giver donationer til 10 tilfældigt udvalgte e-mails som et tegn på påskønnelse af, hvad Gud gjorde for os, og din er en af de e-mails, vi udvalgte fra en lodtrækning.
Vi donerer summen af £500.000 (Fem hundrede tusinde britiske pund) til dig og din kærlighed én gang.
Kontakt os via vores e-mail ---REDACTED--- for at kræve din donation.

A scammer’s profile text · 2023

alexjames_pilot

5 posts
2,121 followers
698 following
Alex James
Dancing
Travelling
Cooking
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Messages from a scammer · 2023

You have already succeeded.

Your current account has become a mortgage drilling mine.

Before you get a reward of 200,000 USDT.

I can't withdraw cash.

Have a good time

Thank you.

After the inquiry.

The account balance is ---REDACTED--- USDT.

You need an 18,000 USDT fee and a 50,000 USDT deposit to withdraw money.

Defi needs to make your wallet a 50,000 USDT deposit. You can restart Defi.

The deposit will be refunded to your bank account in 10 business days.

We have received a fee and a deposit.

The deposit will be returned on 10 business days.

We have received a fee and a deposit.

The deposit will be returned on 10 business days.

Messages from a scammer · 2023

Soy soltera y tengo una hija que se llama Jessica y ella tiene 8 años… ¿cuántos años tienes tú?charlemos por ahi okcharlemos Eso es bueno... Trabajo con el Departamento de Marina de las Fuerzas de los Estados Unidos.

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.