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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.

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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.

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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

I know longer have access to this. He took his profile down (from Hinge) soon after we met.

Messages from a scammer · 2022

I've set up a dropbox account with screenshots, images, and details of our conversations and transactions: ---LINK REDACTED---

He said he has been in the country for five years. He said his birthday is January 3 (he turned 43 in 2022). He does not have a social security number. He said he lives in Southeast Washington, DC (he rents) and has a 3 month old French bulldog named Robbin.

He would call over and over and also at all hours of the night. He would often express impatience if I was not immediately available. He didn’t seem to ever sleep much.

On or around Nov 4, he said he left to work offshore — on a rig (and then later moved to work on a ship) in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast between Louisiana and Houston (Bay Marchand area). Most of his requests for money were related to saving his job or lucrative contract that he was trying to procure. And, there was always often a great…
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I've set up a dropbox account with screenshots, images, and details of our conversations and transactions: ---LINK REDACTED---

He said he has been in the country for five years. He said his birthday is January 3 (he turned 43 in 2022). He does not have a social security number. He said he lives in Southeast Washington, DC (he rents) and has a 3 month old French bulldog named Robbin.

He would call over and over and also at all hours of the night. He would often express impatience if I was not immediately available. He didn’t seem to ever sleep much.

On or around Nov 4, he said he left to work offshore — on a rig (and then later moved to work on a ship) in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast between Louisiana and Houston (Bay Marchand area). Most of his requests for money were related to saving his job or lucrative contract that he was trying to procure. And, there was always often a great sense of urgency.

I gave him an iPhone and paid him in gift cards, via Paypal, Zelle, and a bank wire. He almost always sent payment through a third party. He always said he would pay me back but there were always many excuses why it didn't happen.

On December 27, he gave me access to a bank account (capitalstandardinstitutions.com) that turned out to be a fraudulent bank site. This was ultimately when I realized it was a scam

Phone numbers (his network is postpaid):
---REDACTED--- (new number 1/9/---REDACTED---

Telegram app:
---REDACTED---
UN: @busyhead02 (then changed to @wolfgang021 on 1/3/22)

Older Telegram login (no longer used recently):
LUCAS BRN
UN: @FREEBIEGUY001 (then changed to @cointradeforexlivesupportteam)

Instagram:
lucasberan2
LucasWolfgang
LUCASBERAN 0 WOLFGANG

Instagram (old): @LUCASBRN00

TikTok: ---LINK REDACTED---

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lucas-beran----REDACTED---

A scammer’s profile text · 2022

Jon
Jonathan Roland
Science, Technology & Engineering
This is a business account
Hello, I'm using What's App
September 20, 2021

Messages from a scammer · 2022

Before the former General left. the Afghanistan government hired most of us here for special job because I was very good in the telecommunication area and I also use computer to detect bombs 💣 I was paid very well by the Afghanistan government an extra money and a lot of compensations. plus the government add more money when we help them find where the terrorist hide ammunitions and a lot of money. just few of us were selected, the other soldiers were jealous about it. Due to the fact that the US Government didn’t allow us to have access to our account from here in Afghanistan . we have been saving the money in our camp, I kept my own mostly in my room. The first general was aware of it without any conditions attached to it. When this new general came he stopped us from the work and the Syria government stopped paying us too. the general also told us not to keep the money in the camp and…
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Before the former General left. the Afghanistan government hired most of us here for special job because I was very good in the telecommunication area and I also use computer to detect bombs 💣 I was paid very well by the Afghanistan government an extra money and a lot of compensations. plus the government add more money when we help them find where the terrorist hide ammunitions and a lot of money. just few of us were selected, the other soldiers were jealous about it. Due to the fact that the US Government didn’t allow us to have access to our account from here in Afghanistan . we have been saving the money in our camp, I kept my own mostly in my room. The first general was aware of it without any conditions attached to it. When this new general came he stopped us from the work and the Syria government stopped paying us too. the general also told us not to keep the money in the camp and he will seize the money if he finds it in the camp. that was out of jealousy. he gave us deadline date to remove the money and send it back home to our family. my colleagues some of them already sent while some are making arrangements to send theirs back home to their wife. and their mother.

A scammer’s profile text · 2022

French/Canadian, went out of the country to Estonia. Had a big job there. Needed $ for the hotel, for a forklift, in hospital, needed $ for his workers. Was going to come back but he was arrested by Estonia police. Went to court. had to pay his Estonian workers before he could leave their country. Never came back to the US.

Scam email · 2022

they try to get money off me they sent me pics but they was stolen off the internet.

Messages from a scammer · 2022

Needs $1,500 for his daughter who has autism. He claims he resides in Florida and his daughter is in a private boarding school. Claims he is deployed to Syria and due to being in the Red Zone he has no access to bank accounts to transfer money to his daughter, Lucy/

Messages from a scammer · 2022

Oh, my love, I don't have any access to my bank because banks and shops aren't working here in Yemen

Honey, find a way to ask your friends to help you with the money please 🙏

Me too baby I don't want to die here and lose you and my daughter baby please you have to find a way to pay the u.n my love please 🙏

Honey, please find a way to pay the u.n please 🙏

My love, If you have the money and contact the u.n, they're make arrangements for me to leave here as soon as possible and replace me with someone else. As soon as they receive the payment in their account in two days I will be with you.

A scammer’s profile text · 2022

Bryce Alex
Trabajo en US Army 82nd Airborne Div. Ft. Bragg, NC
Estudio en Belmont High School

Messages from a scammer · 2022

Dice ser de USA, pero estar desplegado en Siria.
Pero según una revisión que hice a su perfil, parece ser Nigeriano.
Tiene fotos en Facebook y envía fotos con una niña que dice ser su hija de nombre Mía.

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