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The SCARS Institute Encyclopedia of Scams

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 · 2020

He said he lives in Phoenix Arizona and with his job with the National security agency he is stuck in England working

Messages from a scammer · 2020

very long since we are talking almost 4months already but I got screenshots of it.

Messages from a scammer · 2020

I am third generation here in New York . My grandparents came from Singapore. That is where the surname Lee came from. So i'm an American by birth. My both parents are late also and am the only child. It has been so hard for me since i grow up and having all this lost parents and wife, I hope you understand what it means losing both family and wife Rose. I really appreciate you so much for been sincere with me and making me your friend and now am happy I have someone I can always talk to everyday when I woke up and before I got to bed also😊

Scam email · 2020

My name is aria . scam me and i probably everyone else out here. I am from australia. he lies and is a con-artist. He claimed he was going to pick me up at the airport and he never arrived. I called and called and he finally called me with some bullshit excuse. Claiming he got tied up. So I met up with some friends and and stayed there for a couple of days and left. He is a big ass scammer and lies to much. He is just a broke ass young person. .

Scam email · 2020

Impersonating LangLang, an international romance scam hangout

Scam email · 2020

Parcel delivery email address used for international romance fraud
Customs duty

Scam email · 2020

One of the email addresses that exist in a group of international romance scams that pretend to be celebrities.
Account spoofing LangLang
Twitter requested DM, transportation donation and tariffs, divorce lawyer fees
I was tricked into sending money.

Scam email · 2020

One of the email addresses that exist in a group of international romance scams that pretend to be celebrities. It is used as a PayPal remittance account.

Messages from a scammer · 2020

He wanted I buy for 1500 eur TAC or FSA . I said that I have a little money and my scammer before scammed my last money.

A scammer’s profile text · 2020

I met him on facebook then he said to go to hangouts and we could chat there...we have been chatting for over 3months he did as twice for google card 1 for $25. and the other 2 were for $25 and $50 dollars...now he is asking for 1,700. for a plane ticket to come to me...He said the military is paying most of the cost for the ticket...I am to send this money to an agent.

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.