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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.

A scammer’s profile text · 2019

He is a white blonde man with blue eyes,46 years of age and is from London.He apperantly leaves with his mom and son and is divorced

Messages from a scammer · 2019

He tell me that he's international business man gold and jewelry but..he stock in malaysia and were asking me money amount of 600$

Messages from a scammer · 2019

月曜日までにここから簡単に航空券を予約するには、航空会社の代理店口座にお金を送らなければなりません。お金はフライト会社のエージェントアカウントに送られます。

Scam email · 2019

Dear Maria Ines Tapia Corvacho,

Thanks for your message and content duly noted, We bear with you but remember that it is not our fault, we have mapped out routes for delivery, The Turkish custom clearance fee was $5,000 and we have made the payment of $3,000, we need to complete the outstanding balance of $2,000 so that the clearance process will be complete and your package will leave "On-Transit"

Note: All details shall be kept confidential.
Thanks in advance for your anticipated co-operation.

Michael Evans
Dispatch Manager,
Goldenway Delivery Services Company

A scammer’s profile text · 2019

He said,
He is a registered gemologist from GIA and lives in Newark NJ,
He has many account of Instagram as Gene Hogan.

A scammer’s profile text · 2019

"Torri Donaldson
Auburn grad. Artist. Gamer. War Eagle !"

(sorry couldn't copy off Instagram)

Messages from a scammer · 2019

From: torri donaldson
Sent: Sunday, 12 May 2019 6:55 PM
To: ---VICTIM REDACTED---
Subject: Re: Torri Donaldson + Bernie ---VICTIM REDACTED---

I’m not going around this circle via email with you either. If you wanted to help, you would’ve. You asked how much I need so you know how much. I’ll unblock you on insta but if you don’t help like I need at the moment and keep going around in this back and forth, then it’s pointless.
Sent from my iPhone

On May 10, 2019, at 10:34 PM, wrote:
Torri,
I have no idea if this will get to you but if it does please show me some compassion.
I love you and want you in my life now and forever.
Please unblock me on Instagram and let me help you.
I’ve been good to you and I’m serious about our future together.
Please have me back Torri.

This was the only email contact we ever had . It was after "she" blocked me on Instagram. This has been a regular tac…
Read the whole message
From: torri donaldson
Sent: Sunday, 12 May 2019 6:55 PM
To: ---VICTIM REDACTED---
Subject: Re: Torri Donaldson + Bernie ---VICTIM REDACTED---

I’m not going around this circle via email with you either. If you wanted to help, you would’ve. You asked how much I need so you know how much. I’ll unblock you on insta but if you don’t help like I need at the moment and keep going around in this back and forth, then it’s pointless.
Sent from my iPhone

On May 10, 2019, at 10:34 PM, wrote:
Torri,
I have no idea if this will get to you but if it does please show me some compassion.
I love you and want you in my life now and forever.
Please unblock me on Instagram and let me help you.
I’ve been good to you and I’m serious about our future together.
Please have me back Torri.

This was the only email contact we ever had . It was after "she" blocked me on Instagram. This has been a regular tactic to get me groveling back with more money. Absolute extortion !!
There are 19 months worth of daily Instagram messages which document every time she got money and gifts from me. My email to "her "was one day after my birthday and I was feeling absolutely distraught.

Messages from a scammer · 2019

My love this is where we will be coming and for the mean time I love you and I can’t lie to you don’t ever communicate with anyone else don’t talk to anyone I hope you have blocked them all, block all of them and here we will communicating ;

Messages from a scammer · 2019

Messages via phone texting, Twitter, and hangout.
Met on Twitter.

A scammer’s profile text · 2019

He contact me through the Iq elite.com, started writing to me by mail and then by whatsapp. Says to be an engineer who work overseas and who went to do a project in Indonesia, in numerous occasions he asked for money for different inconveniences of the work, lodging, payment of lawyers, rescheduling or air ticket. Just when he was going to travel to see me, he declared the amout of his project and was retained by internal revenue Commission of Indonesia in the airport and demanded payment for taxes, money he does not have in cash, because in his project he was issued checks that he can't collect in Indonesia.He still keeps asking for money to pay this taxes to release his documents.

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.