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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 · 2022

honnête loyale sincères

City
New Jersey

Job
PDG

Company
Orphelinat

Relationship Status
veuve

Messages from a scammer · 2022

Reason why I left my country France to go to another country in Africa call the Ivory Coast because I had no one on whom I counted I lost my mother when I was born, and my aunt who was born. I took care of me also died in a traffic accident; and seeing that my grandmother lives here because my father worked in this country reason why I came to stay near her finally to take care of my father's ranch which is a large ranch of 25 hectares the ranch is made up of pork 🐷 ox horses 🐂 sheep and poultry and I am in partnership with a bio-energy company .. I stayed for 4 months alone without saying anything and with enough refusals for the men who try to me talk about their feelings, I took the time to talk and exchange all the time with these people but nothing good. In short, I have a friend who was lucky enough to have knowledge of the internet, who she found a man of hers who is currentl…
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Reason why I left my country France to go to another country in Africa call the Ivory Coast because I had no one on whom I counted I lost my mother when I was born, and my aunt who was born. I took care of me also died in a traffic accident; and seeing that my grandmother lives here because my father worked in this country reason why I came to stay near her finally to take care of my father's ranch which is a large ranch of 25 hectares the ranch is made up of pork 🐷 ox horses 🐂 sheep and poultry and I am in partnership with a bio-energy company .. I stayed for 4 months alone without saying anything and with enough refusals for the men who try to me talk about their feelings, I took the time to talk and exchange all the time with these people but nothing good. In short, I have a friend who was lucky enough to have knowledge of the internet, who she found a man of hers who is currently on these coasts in the region of Luxembourg. So with her I learned a bit about the net and that's it. I got on Instagram only a few days and saw the reaction of several people talking to me about sex, distant friendship, etc. .... I came online for a really great reason, to fill the void that I have in my heart, to put a new bond in place, To understand life again from the good side, To know if it is again can give me feelings.
I confess to you in all sincerity the age or the distance for me is not important the importance is the sincerity of the heart as well as the confidence in a first beginning of Contact

A scammer’s profile text · 2022

fredo2221_ instagram
And ---LINK REDACTED---

Messages from a scammer · 2022

Well you have to try and be happy because I still need my commander to permit me

Messages from a scammer · 2022

kong kong china scammer, she makes you invest some money in a wallet IMTOKEN and then shoots money and she too be very careful Nr ---REDACTED---,
has an accomplice ---REDACTED---

Messages from a scammer · 2022

I love you babe can you please send me the family budget from my husband

Messages from a scammer · 2022

Baby, write me here (---REDACTED---) to confirm you got my mail and
i will waiting for your mail soon.

Hi Baby
I have gotten a number for
whatsApp and Viber but they told me is going start working whithin 24 hours,
i will write you as soon as it started working..... I love you to the moon and sky.
Yours King,
George...

Messages from a scammer · 2022

Far too many but the scammer had me take out over $8000 in PayDay Loans. It cost me over $10k to pay them back with the fees and penalties. He gave me back $1000 via a "friend" using CashAp - the friends name was Ritchie Fullerr.

Messages from a scammer · 2022

I haven't got my money yet except you send money to me then I will come

Do you think I'm happy here, since morning I have not eaten with the hope that I'm going back today and now you are here saying a different thing

Hey I'm not here to answer any questions from you

I wish I can just sleep and wake up see myself with my daughter that's all I want in tired of all this I'm going thru

How can I scam you babe it's not possible

Scam email · 2022

I'm wondering if u ask urself what makes humans satisfy themselves? U have many similarities with my victims, who I've viewed over my career. You're not the first one who I was watching via a hacked cam of the device. Ur major interest similar with other individuals' hobbies is terrible and messy masturbation. It is your irresponsible attitude to the safety that has resulted in such a situation. U leave me with no alternative but to ask u a question concerning the safety of your device. If u dare to ignore me, within seventy six hours I will send out your home video to the contacts from ur email, and publish it on the Internet.
Don't try to discuss the requirements with me, there will be no any response from my side.

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.