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The SCARS Institute Encyclopedia of Scams

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

Clouie D. Pinatacan
God Fearing & Family Oriented
Instagram: clouied.pinat22

Real Name: Louie Gee D. Pinatacan

Scam email · 2023

Sweetheart Can you please go to any store and get me a Amazon card 50$ Or Any amount of money you like and send it to me am in short of food stuffs please

A scammer’s profile text · 2023

This scammer uses fraud exchange: ---LINK REDACTED--- to allure investors to deposit money to trade gold option, then steal their money.
This fraudster claims she came to US in 2017 from China and lives in San Francisco, CA.

Messages from a scammer · 2023

She promotes a Fraud Trading Brokerage as following:

Evest Group Limited

11e Capital House ---ADDRESS REDACTED---,
London, United Kingdom, E8 1LL
Company number:---REDACTED---
Website: ---LINK REDACTED---

Messages from a scammer · 2023

Ms. Danpei Jing as in Skype profile, who claimed she lives and works in New York city, requested to connect with me in linkedin.com. her profile is: ---LINK REDACTED---
Actually she is a fraudster for fraud exchange: ---LINK REDACTED---
which cheats investors to deposit money to this fraud exchange but not able to get their money back.

A scammer’s profile text · 2023

Richard 231
Selfless love is more common than true friendship.
🥰🥰🥰🥰

Messages from a scammer · 2023

no hemos chateado nada fuera de inconsistencias, por que cuestiono mucho sus incoherencias, pero creo que no habia caido en cuenta el riesgo y peligro que son.

Messages from a scammer · 2022

The $5000 of your payment is already been deposited from my PayPal account waiting for you to complete it with bitcoins baby once you get this last $200 bitcoins you will receive the $5000 payment immediately in 5 seconds baby I promise so that you can go to the shopping 🛍 and show me the beautiful dresses you got baby 🍎❤️ I promise you baby this the last bitcoins that you purchasing to receive the $5000 payment now
Baby so that you can go and pay your bills tomorrow baby and go to shopping 🛍 and show daddy the beautiful dresses you got baby

Scam email · 2022

i want gift card for shopping babebabe please have you gotten me the card babeamazon gift card babe$50 babe

A scammer’s profile text · 2022

Joel Johnson
@joel___johnson
Growth keeps them coming back
San Jose, CA Joined August ---REDACTED--- Following
87 Followers

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.