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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.

Messages from a scammer · 2020

Myself and my son live together
But he goes to a boarding school and comes home every wekend
I grew up at the Orphanage in Atlanta and i never knew my parents.
I pick him up every friday and we spend the weekend together
Sergeant Major in the American Army.
I live in korea for 5 years
Anjeong-ri and Pyeongtaek
My hobbies are
Cooking, traveling, movies, going to the games (football and baseball games)

A scammer’s profile text · 2020

Richard Hopkins Meyer
United States Veteran, Fort Knox
Just want to live happily as never before
My life is all about I, my son michael and my lovely dog
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Messages from a scammer · 2019

"You can’t also help with the 300 for us to complete this , I am dead and gone so come kill me
U already have woman u chase
How’s is my behavior when we are losing millions over 300$
Bullshit too"
this is what she says. a small example of her rhetoric

Messages from a scammer · 2019

i work at UN.
i have a daughter between a japanese woman, so i find a japanese woman for marriage.
You are my wife.
To send your naked pictures is your duty as my wife.
We are forever.
I never marry.

Messages from a scammer · 2019

So I talked to the guy I contacted and we concluded that if I had extra 3 guy plus him we could finish the job in less than two months but their price are high. So I told him I can only hire him now and later we will see if I can hire the other three. Regarding new technology here, he suggested that I can pay him using bitcoin. It's a cryptocurrency. I will need to pay him 4000$ worth of bitcoin into his wallet address. I need you to help with 4500$ to make his first payment. You'll need to get the cash and look for a bitcoin atm machine near you to buy the coins to his wallet. Please try to help me do this.

Scam email · 2019

22:24 Ethan 🌹 I didn’t expect the kind of charges I was given just for the clearing off my materials, I was told that the Dubai taxation has become very high, that’s why the clearance charge is now higher. Let me send you the copy of the receipt that was giving to me by the customs 🛃

22:26 Ethan 🌹 Telecom equipment are expensive i believe that was the reason the tariff was expensive

22:28 Ethan 🌹 All expenses has been paid to me as advance payment for the project

22:28 Ethan 🌹 I tried to make the payment online with my online banking access, but all of a sudden my online access was blocked, when I contacted my bank in America they said because I was accessing my online banking from an unsecured WiFi server that was the reason they had to block it,

22:29 Ethan 🌹 My bank said it’s going to take about few weeks for them to rectify my account

22:30 Ethan 🌹 Your can see pending balance…
Read the whole message
22:24 Ethan 🌹 I didn’t expect the kind of charges I was given just for the clearing off my materials, I was told that the Dubai taxation has become very high, that’s why the clearance charge is now higher. Let me send you the copy of the receipt that was giving to me by the customs 🛃

22:26 Ethan 🌹 Telecom equipment are expensive i believe that was the reason the tariff was expensive

22:28 Ethan 🌹 All expenses has been paid to me as advance payment for the project

22:28 Ethan 🌹 I tried to make the payment online with my online banking access, but all of a sudden my online access was blocked, when I contacted my bank in America they said because I was accessing my online banking from an unsecured WiFi server that was the reason they had to block it,

22:29 Ethan 🌹 My bank said it’s going to take about few weeks for them to rectify my account

22:30 Ethan 🌹 Your can see pending balance of $113,320,00 on my account when I tried to make payment online

22:34 Ethan 🌹 I was having about $35,000 cash with me here and I called a very close friend in America and he was able to send me $20,000 today

22:35 Ethan 🌹 And I was able to make a half deposit of $55,000 today

22:37 Ethan 🌹 Now I have about $58,000 left to pay to the customs before I can clear my materials

22:40 Ethan 🌹 I have to clear my shipment as soon as possible so I can start the project on time if not I will be sanctioned or arrested for breach of contract from the Dubai authorities

22:43 Ethan 🌹 can you borrow me some money as soon my account is rectified or I get paid after the project is completed I will pay back to you immediately

A scammer’s profile text · 2019

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SET TO PRIVATE
12 posts
88 followers
266 following
Mbene David
#fix #sport #love #tech #dr
Technology............................#date😍😍
Love kids 💕 Love swimming 😊 Love traveling 🇱🇷🇦🇪🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇦🇬🇧
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Messages from a scammer · 2019

I NEED MONEY. DO A MONEY TRANSFER 4 $5000 AS MY DAUGHTER IS ILL AND I NO HAVE JOB. NEEDS MEDICAL ELP MY SWEET THING. PLS, YOU R THE ONLY 1 THAT CAN HELP. I SEND DETAILS VIA HANGOUTS

A scammer’s profile text · 2019

People only see your blessings, but they never see the struggle that got you there.

Messages from a scammer · 2019

Baby I'm planning to buy you gifts before i will travel to turkey.

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.