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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

What are you reporting?

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.

Scam email · 2024

Hi!
My friend, look carefully! This email is not spam! Your e-mail I was given at a dating agency, dating through the Internet. It took me a long time to send you this letter. The combination of circumstances in my life has given me confidence send a letter. It's time to completely shake up our life. I'm want to meet a man for a stable relationship! Are you a free man? Do you looking for a girl for a serious relationship? Let's start our acquaintance and communication! It will be the most positive! You can right now see my picture. I attached it in a message. I forgot say the most important! My name is Kunduz . I am twenty eight years old. I from Kyrgyz Republiс . The city of Bishkek. I think that distance is not a hindrance for our communication? I have often heard many examples of men and women from different countries succeeding creating happy. . Perhaps we will repeat the same story!…
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Hi!
My friend, look carefully! This email is not spam! Your e-mail I was given at a dating agency, dating through the Internet. It took me a long time to send you this letter. The combination of circumstances in my life has given me confidence send a letter. It's time to completely shake up our life. I'm want to meet a man for a stable relationship! Are you a free man? Do you looking for a girl for a serious relationship? Let's start our acquaintance and communication! It will be the most positive! You can right now see my picture. I attached it in a message. I forgot say the most important! My name is Kunduz . I am twenty eight years old. I from Kyrgyz Republiс . The city of Bishkek. I think that distance is not a hindrance for our communication? I have often heard many examples of men and women from different countries succeeding creating happy. . Perhaps we will repeat the same story! Each of us has a full right to be happy. ! If there's a one chance in million chances that be together. , let's use it!Please, send me a message ONLY if you are interested in a relationship! This is important to me! Waiting for your answer! More details about myself and my life write in the next letter after your answer to my message. I am very glad to start our communication!
All the best to you, Kunduz

Scam email · 2024

Get me a gift card I will make you a video okOkay get me card

Scam email · 2024

Do u want my Nake_d pic or my Address...?
Fuckk-Me~Fully free??agree??

Scam email · 2024

should talk to you. Please get back to me as soon as you can!
Text me plz.....

Scam email · 2024

Hey,I am A Collage Student.
I want to Prepay You $187.
If you se-x With Me One Night Standddd TAP TO CALL ME HERE

Scam email · 2024

Take your dragon manure and enjoy eating it. That is the color of your skin, you dirty demon

Scam email · 2024

Liar. The police never heard of you. Satan enjoys your company, waiting for you to go to hell where you belong.

Scam email · 2024

You should go back and see your psychiatrist. You are a mental case.

I will be reporting you to gmail for abuse of their email service and for slandering people without proof. Your account will be terminated. People like you do not deserve the benefit of having access to the internet.

Padre

Scam email · 2024

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Scam email · 2024

Fuck off I don't care what you say eat a dick you low life gold digger !

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.