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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 · 2022

Ok
That's so cool to hear from you, you really cool and looking wonderful in that pics you just sent to me now

Well
I was born and brought up in Alabama but I have a sister in Los Angeles's that's why I'm there for now but going back to Alabama tomorrow morning

That's my license

What about you and let see your id

Well tell me about yourself and let see your I'd pics

Wow wow you don't have too cause I show you mine now
I'm not the kind of person you thinking about ok

If am not real I won't be able to send you my id pics yes just want you to know that

We had made a date on Dine for dinner today. I asked her to confirm:
Yes I will love to but I'm in big trouble with my sister seen morning

I don't want to share you my pains cause you aren't the one that sent me message

I lost her 500 bucks and she's just shouting on me seen morning and she will not allow me to drive her car to any…
Read the whole message
Ok
That's so cool to hear from you, you really cool and looking wonderful in that pics you just sent to me now

Well
I was born and brought up in Alabama but I have a sister in Los Angeles's that's why I'm there for now but going back to Alabama tomorrow morning

That's my license

What about you and let see your id

Well tell me about yourself and let see your I'd pics

Wow wow you don't have too cause I show you mine now
I'm not the kind of person you thinking about ok

If am not real I won't be able to send you my id pics yes just want you to know that

We had made a date on Dine for dinner today. I asked her to confirm:
Yes I will love to but I'm in big trouble with my sister seen morning

I don't want to share you my pains cause you aren't the one that sent me message

I lost her 500 bucks and she's just shouting on me seen morning and she will not allow me to drive her car to anywhere

Me: You speak like English is not your primary language.

I guess because I was born in India

I'm very sorry for that

Me: I see. There are no blondes in India. You know that. Whose id did you steal?

Don't you get me understand well

I was born in India because my father was into trading and he travel all over the world so I was born in India. before I go back to my father house in Alabama at the age of 16 years old

That's my id ok

A scammer’s profile text · 2022

🇯🇵 arrive 🇺🇸 Los Angeles
Entrepreneur
Shenzhen University
Graduated from the finance department
Wine trading company
ackerwines

Messages from a scammer · 2022

The scenery here is really beautiful! Can you tell me where this is?

我觉得我们很有必要互相添加一下WhatsApp,那样的话交流起来会更方便的多

I am a romantic. it will be given to my future lover

Now it is very suitable for beginners to learn, in fact, you can also download an exchange to start your crypto journey

I believe it will be very interesting for you, I can be your teacher in this regard 😎

让我一步步的教你吧,不过现在你要做的就是需要存入一些资金然后买入一些币,然后再用这些币去进行交易

在我的带领下你能够赚取到不错的收益的

A scammer’s profile text · 2022

Simply messaged me saying they were lonely, kept saying they are from MN, that they are not Nigerian.

Messages from a scammer · 2022

I received 229 messages, and sent thousands of dollars in gift cards, paid their rent, Ava Adams, said her real name is Collette, I asked her to marry me, have my children. I was in contact with 172 people, it destroyed my twenty year relationship and used all my savings. I really believed they loved and needed me, in reality my now ex and our roomate are needed just to pay the rent. I am embarrassed and such a fool. Now I am an alcoholic, and don’t want to be sober, I hurt the woman who truly loved me and her trust is gone. She plans on moving out as soon as she saves up enough money. I am so lost.

A scammer’s profile text · 2022

Hello, nice to meet you! I am customer assistant of the Amazon platform. My name is Jayda.

Messages from a scammer · 2022

Welcome To Merchant-Amazon Center, My name is JAYDA recommend to you an Online Work from home job earn 500-50,000 in a week, May i know what is your good name and how old are you ?😇

A scammer’s profile text · 2022

Korean🇰🇷
카스트로
New York 🇱🇷
Living my life to the fullest
R.i.p Mom and Dad

Messages from a scammer · 2022

They are all on Facebook Messenger, and I don't know how to copy them. They are also way more than the 2000 characters that are available here.

Messages from a scammer · 2022

Ortopédico Franklin Predo🩺:
How do you intend to sort out my box problem?

Netti:
Ich brauche Zeit

Ortopédico Franklin Predo🩺:
Honey how long?

The shipping can not wait for too long

Netti:
Stressen nicht

Ortopédico Franklin Predo🩺:
Be specific on the exact time and so that we will write to the shipping Company

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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.