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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.

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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 · 2020

DOB ---REDACTED--- Rockport, Texas, but now in Jacksonville, Florida. ---ADDRESS REDACTED--- Uses PayPal address ---REDACTED--- to send money, flowers, gifts.
I'm looking for a man who's interested to be my partner in life. Someone who I can lean on and never let me go whatever circumstances may come along our way when in times that I need him by my side.

Messages from a scammer · 2020

Have to look for choice emails where she claims her Visa expired in 2017 and has been hiding for being deported. No jobs in Slovenia

Messages from a scammer · 2020

Example message below

[12:36, 20/06/2020] Chen: My uncle told me that TUC will be on the market in a month, and the price will rise to about $5. Now the price of TUC only needs $2.39.
[12:37, 20/06/2020] Chen: This is a very good profit, and I asked for his help yesterday, and wanted more, and he promised me.
Tomorrow he'll tell me how many shares I'm going to get

Scam email · 2020

I am truly, madly and deeply in love with you. You showered me with unconditional love and was there for me through all my ups and downs. You are a woman stronger than anyone I know. Thank you for everything you did for me. You are an angel sent from above.

Your loving husband

Klaus. C. Wolfgang

Messages from a scammer · 2020

the email address of fake commander Henry : ---REDACTED---

GOOD MORNING

MADAM, WE ARE STILL PROCESSING THE PAPERS OF MR ANDREW TURNER, WE UNDERSTAND THAT YOU HAVE REQUESTED FOR A 3 MONTHS LEAVE, YOU ARE BEEN NEEDED TO MAKE A PAYMENT OF $1,000 TO ENABLE US RECRUIT A NEW SOLDIER THAT WILL REPLACE MR ANDREW FOR THE MISSION ASSIGNED TO HIM HERE AT THE CAMP, TRY AND MAKE THIS PAYMENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
THE PAPERS WILL BE READY FOR HIM TO SIGN ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY, THEN HE WILL BE FREE TO LEAVE THE CAMP. WHEN EVER YOU READY TO MAKE THE PAYMENT LET US KNOW, HAVE A GOOD DAY..



madam the woman in charge of the rescue mission is in Pakistan right now and I know it will be more easier for you to send money to Pakistan than USA can you do Western Union to Pakistan?



MADAM THIS IS THE WESTERN UNION FOR THE PAYMENT, AFTER MAKING THE PAYMENT SEND ME THE PAYMENT RECEIVED FOR CONFIRMATION OK.

NAM…
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the email address of fake commander Henry : ---REDACTED---

GOOD MORNING

MADAM, WE ARE STILL PROCESSING THE PAPERS OF MR ANDREW TURNER, WE UNDERSTAND THAT YOU HAVE REQUESTED FOR A 3 MONTHS LEAVE, YOU ARE BEEN NEEDED TO MAKE A PAYMENT OF $1,000 TO ENABLE US RECRUIT A NEW SOLDIER THAT WILL REPLACE MR ANDREW FOR THE MISSION ASSIGNED TO HIM HERE AT THE CAMP, TRY AND MAKE THIS PAYMENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
THE PAPERS WILL BE READY FOR HIM TO SIGN ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY, THEN HE WILL BE FREE TO LEAVE THE CAMP. WHEN EVER YOU READY TO MAKE THE PAYMENT LET US KNOW, HAVE A GOOD DAY..



madam the woman in charge of the rescue mission is in Pakistan right now and I know it will be more easier for you to send money to Pakistan than USA can you do Western Union to Pakistan?



MADAM THIS IS THE WESTERN UNION FOR THE PAYMENT, AFTER MAKING THE PAYMENT SEND ME THE PAYMENT RECEIVED FOR CONFIRMATION OK.

NAME:Chuop Sokhim
Address:Phnom Penh Cambodia

Scam email · 2020

Sent from my iPhone

Begin forwarded message:
From: ---VICTIM REDACTED---
Date: September 13, 2019 at 5:39:24 PM EDT
To: ---VICTIM REDACTED---
Subject: At store

He’s starting refund and trying to said I’m over 14 days. Has phone with him. Waiting on what to do. Said watch 5 coming. Got authorization

Scam email · 2020

Welcome to Victorbassy shipping and cargo

Attention:

---VICTIM REDACTED---

Your name..................................................................

Street address:...........................................................

Postal code: ...............................................................

city:................................................ ..............................

Country................................................. .......................

age................................................. .............................

sex................................................. ..............................

phone number: ............................................... ............

Serial Number.............................................................

A scammer’s profile text · 2020

Sergeant fist class at US Army. Studied at Seattle University . Lives in Austin, Texas. From Onion Creek, Austin, Texas. He is Divorced.

Messages from a scammer · 2020

none coppies...just black mailed threats of worldwide publishing

A scammer’s profile text · 2020

Profil auf fecebook wurde nach kontaktaufnahme gelöscht. Ein weiteres profil ist auf skype. Ausserdem profile bei instagram : claudineduvalle33, claudine_duvalle1, melissa, Rolande fallour, larissa.lauverge89,

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.