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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.

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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.

Messages from a scammer · 2021

my account was deactivated by my bank last 2 months, i tried to activate it many times but they said i have to come directly to the states to activate, i do not know what to do, because i can not leave here yet because my contract here has not ended yet

Messages from a scammer · 2021

[01/22, 08:28] Zlanath Zulu: Done with the payment. 😎

The FOREX INCENTIVE ACCOUNT, has required a releasing fee of R2890.59. Once it is paid the cash gonna reflect same time on your side. This origins of legally obtained money, typically by means of transfers involving foreign banks or legitimate business.Your transferring is on pending we need that amount external in order to proceed with the transferring.
[01/22, 08:36] Zlanath Zulu: GoodMorning dear.
I just made the payment of R26000 so they need that amount of R2890.59 external in order to proceed with the transferring. Once its paid the cash gonna reflect yourside in less than 3mins.

Messages from a scammer · 2021

How are you and how was your night? I hope you did sleep well and wake up beautifully, my night was wonderful as your thought fills my heart. You have no idea how happy I am to know that you are interested in me.

Please, I want you to email me always, it can never be too much, it actually makes me feel special because I know that you could have other things to spend your time doing. Working here is like ” a storyline in a typical American movie or news ” cause every day something happens which most times involve dead bodies. I decided to join the military because I want to be able to stand up for humanity and for my nation. Every day I have to patrol different checkpoints, change the team on duty, reinforce wherever needs reinforcement, I stay for an hour at each point and longer in areas where there is a crisis, I know it sounds simple but it’s not as simple as it sounds. I have not be…
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How are you and how was your night? I hope you did sleep well and wake up beautifully, my night was wonderful as your thought fills my heart. You have no idea how happy I am to know that you are interested in me.

Please, I want you to email me always, it can never be too much, it actually makes me feel special because I know that you could have other things to spend your time doing. Working here is like ” a storyline in a typical American movie or news ” cause every day something happens which most times involve dead bodies. I decided to join the military because I want to be able to stand up for humanity and for my nation. Every day I have to patrol different checkpoints, change the team on duty, reinforce wherever needs reinforcement, I stay for an hour at each point and longer in areas where there is a crisis, I know it sounds simple but it’s not as simple as it sounds. I have not been in any relationship since I lost my husband. I love reading and writing too and I played basketball in school. Civil and electrical engineering is my subject.

I was thinking about us this morning and decided to ask some few questions to put a spark to what we are building here which I already gave my answers to, please do not be offended by any of them, I am so happy and in love with our communication and what we are trying to build here which is friendship.

These are my questions and answers, I hope my answers are appealing to you, will wait for your own answers, it will bring us closer and give us the opportunity to know more about ourselves when I give in to something, I give fully, so that’s me. Attached are pictures of my daughter, I hope you like them.

My warm thoughts are for you,
Jody.

Scam email · 2021

Update email ***Posing as Nigeria interpol***

Re: We have information to retrieve all money lost to adekunbi laoye.
Yahoo
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---VICTIM REDACTED---
To:
---VICTIM REDACTED---

Mon, Jan 18 at 3:14 PM

take $300 out of any money you want to send me otherwise if I have to send money to you
sounds like a scam

I was fooled once...

On Monday, January 18, 2021, 02:35:11 PM EST, Banes last wrote:


you will pay a tax of 300 us dollars we initiate the transfer and you provide us with your account details.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 7:28 PM Banes last wrote:
give us 2 hours from now we will tell you what to do,she has been arrested. We only need to retrieve your money.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 7:04 ---VICTIM REDACTED--- wrote:
What do I have to lose at this point? I am broke because of her - ($17,000)

---VICTIM REDACTED---
---ADDRESS REDACTED---
Bethlehem Georgia USA
30620

On Monday, January 18, 2…
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Update email ***Posing as Nigeria interpol***

Re: We have information to retrieve all money lost to adekunbi laoye.
Yahoo
/
---VICTIM REDACTED---
To:
---VICTIM REDACTED---

Mon, Jan 18 at 3:14 PM

take $300 out of any money you want to send me otherwise if I have to send money to you
sounds like a scam

I was fooled once...

On Monday, January 18, 2021, 02:35:11 PM EST, Banes last wrote:


you will pay a tax of 300 us dollars we initiate the transfer and you provide us with your account details.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 7:28 PM Banes last wrote:
give us 2 hours from now we will tell you what to do,she has been arrested. We only need to retrieve your money.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 7:04 ---VICTIM REDACTED--- wrote:
What do I have to lose at this point? I am broke because of her - ($17,000)

---VICTIM REDACTED---
---ADDRESS REDACTED---
Bethlehem Georgia USA
30620

On Monday, January 18, 2021, 12:51:08 PM EST, Banes last wrote:


we have been trailing miss adekunbi for years and she is in Nigeria in the custody of the Nigerian interpol. We discovered she stole some money from you and our job is to recover the funds. We are the EFCC. Its a financial crime unit. If you want your money recovered and re embused to you, kindly reply with your full names and address.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 6:25 ---VICTIM REDACTED--- wrote:
Never heard of you - who is this?

On Monday, January 18, 2021, 10:44:46 AM EST, Banes last wrote:


Interpol Nigeria.kindly respond to this message as soon as possible.

Messages from a scammer · 2021

Websites/Social media:
Snapchat hurricane_cori
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skype : aliciadonn
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Messages from a scammer · 2021

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and Delivery company
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Messages from a scammer · 2021

Ich schrieb mit dem jenigen der sich für Jacob Tomsky ausgab über Hangouts..Ich kann nur Screenshots mit den Nachrichten machen

A scammer’s profile text · 2021

She’s been in the hangout app.scamming people of USA.But she also have traveled different countries like Lagos,Nigeria,Dubai,AUE,and now she’s been stuck in Istanbul,Turkey trying to get back into the United States.Also she traveled into the UK but she was detained and deported back to Istanbul,Turkey because she doesn’t have her vaccination certificate against Covid-19 to keep traveling back to the United States.

A scammer’s profile text · 2021

The scammer is on many sites I can't copy the message but he took $400 from cash app refuse to refund me my money

Messages from a scammer · 2021

I don't have any message save from I delete all but is scamming people

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