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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

What are you reporting?

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

---VICTIM REDACTED---

Hello Sweetie. How are you doing my darling wife ? just got back from a horrible night patrol but thank God i am ee alive. I am still crying so much after all that happen but I'm glad we will be able to handle whatever come our way after now. I just want you to be happy and safe in my arms for the rest of your life. sweetie please i need you here as soon as you get my message, o we can talk more, so i hope to hear from you soon. Love and miss you so much

Messages from a scammer · 2020

---REDACTED--- phone number with comunícate trough WhatsApp. The scammer is located in Dominican Republic

Scam email · 2020

He is using many of Jonathan Marsh’s pics and even asking me for money which I have not sent

Messages from a scammer · 2020

こんにちは、アレクサンドラです。

カップルのウェブサイトにあなたのメールアドレスがあることをとても嬉しく思います。別のアプリケーションを使用するよりも、メールアドレスを使用する方がはるかに簡単です。

あなたのプロフィールは私にとって魅力的でした。そして、私たちが対話を始めたことを嬉しく思います。あなたが多くの女性と楽しくコミュニケーションをとる男性の一人ではないことを願っています。私は、オープンで、正直で、真剣な関係に取り組んでいます。お互いをよりよく知ることができます。この手紙は連絡する必要があります。答えてください。

次の手紙では、自分に関する詳細な情報を書きます。また、写真を送ります。

よろしく、アレクサンドラ。

Messages from a scammer · 2020

Baby would you give me $200 Amazon card to complete the operation. And give me your bank username and password

A scammer’s profile text · 2020

Michael used so many fake accounts on instagram and eventually admitted who he was and I spent months talking to him and on video via WhatsApp. He kept saying he was poor and hungry so I sent money via world remit. I noticed another Australian lady following him and messaged her. He was also romantically talking to him and sending bitcoin. All for food or his sick dad. I received information that I cannot confirm it’s truth from a local friend in Nigeria from the Nigerian police that Michael is a dangerous fraudster. And they said if I keep sending money I will be arrested for assisting a criminal in Nigeria. I cannot say if that’s true or made up but what I do know is that I lost a lot of money thinking I had a future with Michael 😔

A scammer’s profile text · 2020

鉄蔵 向井

---ADDRESS REDACTED--- Beverly
Beverly Hills,
Los Angeles, California
+ ---REDACTED---
But I don't have a phone anymore

Angela school Name: The Duke Of York's Royal Military School

Angela school Address: The Duke of York's Royal Military School, Dover CT15 5EQ, United Kingdom

Messages from a scammer · 2020

親愛な
ここの軍事基地ではお金は安全ではありません
 私は救助ミッションに行くからです
そして、私は救助任務中に基地にお金を残すことはできません。
パッケージとしてあなたにお金を送りたい
そのように、あなたは私が安全に私のお金を保つのを助けるか、私は私の銀行口座にお金を送ることができます
救助ミッションから戻るまで。

Messages from a scammer · 2020

criminal : scouth silvian
criminal email : ---REDACTED---
kakao talk id : scouth silvian

Messages from a scammer · 2020

I tracked him when I sent him a link and he’s in Kenya Nairobi

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.