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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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These items were reported to SCARS Institute in connection with scams. A listing is a report, not proof. If something here is yours and is listed in error, please request its removal.

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 · 2022

So when are you going to get me the cardDo you the cardOk hun can yo go to the store now and get it for me

A scammer’s profile text · 2022

Divorced
Five children
Montana National Guard 37 years service

A scammer’s profile text · 2022

Celebrity....no profile on FB, Instagram, etc. See last year's American Idol

Messages from a scammer · 2022

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This is just the last from a few days ago...We have been speaking for a year and a half at least.
Chayce Beckham, Sat 5:34 PM

Kathie ---VICTIM REDACTED---, Sat 6:28 PM
Then stop ghosting me. Have a good show.

Chayce Beckham, Sat 6:28 PM
Thank you sweetheart I will not ghost you anymore
❤️💍💋💋💋
Loml you know you once sent me your ID 🪪
I can’t find it on my phone maybe because I have lots of pictures lol
Can you send it back to me darling

Kathie ---VICTIM REDACTED---, Sat 6:30 PM
Why?

Chayce Beckham, Sat 6:30 PM
Is it bad of asking
🤨
It’s not bad you know 😏
Hmmmmm
Come on sweetheart 😒💯

Kathie ---VICTIM REDACTED---, Sat 6:32 PM
Well yeah. You basically checked out 3 months ago and now you want my personal info again?

Chayce Beckham, Sat 6:32 PM
I ever said please
It’s ok if you don’t want to share I know you yell at me sorry
👋
🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️

Kathie ---VICTIM REDACTED---, Sat 6:33 PM
I don’t yell at you. Good gosh. We can’t even have a conversation anymore.
Chayce I haven’t been on your mind for months now. Forgive me for being wary
You walked away already to me

Chayce Beckham, Sat 6:37 PM
Because you don’t want us to be together
We should have been together since 3 months ago but you fail

Kathie ---VICTIM REDACTED---, Sat 6:37 PM
Cut the crud

Chayce Beckham, Sat 6:37 PM
Whatever
You don’t believe any words I say to you so forget me
I gave you millions of proof yet you don’t believe
I’m not Chayce Beckham 😹😹 I’m a ghost

Kathie ---VICTIM REDACTED---, Sat 6:38 PM
Not really and you know that deep down.

Chayce Beckham, Sat 6:38 PM
😏

Kathie ---VICTIM REDACTED---, Sat 6:39 PM
I did not fail. You said you would FaceTime me. One thing is not too much to ask

Chayce Beckham, Sat 6:39 PM
😏

Kathie ---VICTIM REDACTED---, Sat 6:39 PM
You make things so hard
I’m so easy going and you maybe are not

Chayce Beckham, Sat 6:40 PM
Whatever
🚶‍♂️

Kathie ---VICTIM REDACTED---, Sat 6:41 PM
A man “in love” would have met his girl by now

Chayce Beckham, Sat 6:41 PM
You believe your family when I

Messages from a scammer · 2022

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I live in Spain. This scammer said he was Asian Amercian. He first talked to me on facebook then find a reason to have my whatsapp. After that , he only talked with me on whatspp for more than 2 months. when he knew I am a widow, he said he lost his wife too 6 years ago. After 2 weeks talking, he said he was in love me and want to come to meet me marry me etc. He acted very polite, gentlemen and care , made me fell in love with him deeply. He sent me some pictures on whatsapp which of course I think he steal from internet. I sent him a lot of pictures of me and my daughter. He use my and my daughter´s picture as his whatsapp profile pictures. He said he was independent contractor and currently working in Laptev offshore oil rig for a 3 months project. he mentioned it was a big project and he has financial everything he had to this project. around 1 month later, he said he had food shortage because he couldn´t find the food supplier which agreed that he can pay him after project finish. and the new supplier only accepted payment in advance. and he has no more extra money to pay. The food he had only enough for 3 days. I hesitated but finally I still transfered total Euro 28785 to the account in spain which he said provided by the food suppliers because of the current situation in Russia. convinced me that he was ok becuase the money didn't go to him account. After 2 weeks later, he said he had to pay Euro 250,000 VAT to the tax office because they had been there and stopped his work. i showed him I have no more money and gave him a lot of idea to deal but he found excuse to deny all my solution and wanted me to borrow money or apply loan to support him. I felt something is not correct, I didn't do. and also found out he took off his facebook account. I am very scary that he will use my and my daughter's pictures to make the next scam. I blockade his business whatsapp. I haven't reported his number with whatsapp as I want to keep the conversation as evidence.

A scammer’s profile text · 2022

(The profile is quite long!) Since my baptism, I have been striving to live the gospel. Caring, loving, thoughtful, responsible, sensitive and considerate are some qualities I can humbly describe myself. I'm sociable, a better listener than talker, mostly cheerful, and a hard worker. I am very active, gregarious, adventurous, spontaneous, romantic, with a great sense of humor, and never boring. I am quite family oriented. Family is my priority in this life and for all eternities to come. To me, its my source of joy and happiness. ...and on and on. He says "I do not feel distance is a problem in a relatinoship. it can be worked out, but love and affection is the most important thingi n a good and loving relationship. I learnt that distance does not matter for two people that genuinely want to be together" and so on.

Messages from a scammer · 2022

There are too many to paste, but I have a record in my phone of every text and email and will be happy to provide them.

A scammer’s profile text · 2022

But you told me that you will send me Amazon card 100Please send me the card let me go and I find something to eatHope it's AmazonSend me the card

Messages from a scammer · 2022

Please send me the card let me go and I find something to eatHope it's AmazonBut you told me that you will send me Amazon card 100Send me the card

A scammer’s profile text · 2022

The son of a parent who is from Oslo and rents real estate. He showed a fake paper that he made from his investment. In a single father, he said his sister was taking care of his boy in England, he said he would come to see Japan after going to Beijing, China, and he couldn't even send a video call, saying he broke his cell phone. Liar. I said he was a marriage scam. He talked about marriage even though he hadn't met. rice field

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Twelve Years of Data

Help Protect Others

AnyScam Scam Quick Reporting

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AnyScam Scam Database Search

AnyScam Scam Stats

Phone numbers, by country

Profiles, by platform

Profiles, by the kind of persona

AnyScam Scam Database Message Examples

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