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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.

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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 · 2019

I am filling this out for my mother Dorothy who has given away her whole pension to this scum. I don’t have a lot of access to her private messages. She has accumulated a massive amount of debt, thinking that she and this Anderson person will split a $6.4 million inheritance and get married and live happily ever after. She is also dealing with another person named Brian Koch who says he can give her certain amount gold bars if she just send him money. ---REDACTED---

We have a lot of evidence where to upload it? We took it from her phone, from her tablet and cashier checks. And also thousand of dollars of gift cards from Amazon and Apple that she’s given it to them.

A scammer’s profile text · 2019

Chris Martinez
Vive en Sanaa Yemen
De Madrid
Fecha de nacimiento :24/051964 estudio en Texas Tech UNIVERSITY

A scammer’s profile text · 2019

I could not find profile on Facebook, however, I recall he was a single father from San Diego , Ca. He was an Architectural Engineer by schooling however he bought and sold gold in various countries. Currently he was in Dubai United Arab Emirates.

Messages from a scammer · 2019

There will never be another for me and I will always keep you safe.It takes a strong woman to accomplish everything that you have in your life, I am proud of you that you stick to your goals. You are what I dreamed of when I decided to go into relationship, someone with integrity, honesty, love, affection, and open minded this is what i see inside of you, and with such a charming personality. I never thought I would find a girl like you, but here you are. Yes it's true my life is just like "Life of pi" haha, because i always stay in the ocean because of my work but hope you know that am willing to retire from work so i wont be faraway from you after we have settled down as one family.
Like i told you i listed things i will do with you when we are finally together.
HERE IT GOES………
Be your best friend.
Dance with you in the rain.
Stargaze on a clear night.
Watch the sunset together.
Spend…
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There will never be another for me and I will always keep you safe.It takes a strong woman to accomplish everything that you have in your life, I am proud of you that you stick to your goals. You are what I dreamed of when I decided to go into relationship, someone with integrity, honesty, love, affection, and open minded this is what i see inside of you, and with such a charming personality. I never thought I would find a girl like you, but here you are. Yes it's true my life is just like "Life of pi" haha, because i always stay in the ocean because of my work but hope you know that am willing to retire from work so i wont be faraway from you after we have settled down as one family.
Like i told you i listed things i will do with you when we are finally together.
HERE IT GOES………
Be your best friend.
Dance with you in the rain.
Stargaze on a clear night.
Watch the sunset together.
Spend all day with you doing nothing.

A scammer’s profile text · 2019

UK ---REDACTED---
Calif. office
---LINK REDACTED---
UK ---REDACTED---
Advocacy law office.com
---REDACTED--- Neuraliard, CA City, CA ---REDACTED--- Folsom Ave., Suite 600,
San Francisco CA 94107
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Andy Harriss
---ADDRESS REDACTED---
Brushford TA 22 7US
UK
---REDACTED---
—————-
Where he supposedly sent gold to someone else in the USA
Andy Harris
---ADDRESS REDACTED---
ACCRA - GHANA

Messages from a scammer · 2019

He has office in Calif.
He has office in UK
and apparently in
Africa

A scammer’s profile text · 2019

Claims to be military doctor in Army for 27-38?yrs., in Syria on mission

Scam email · 2019

I have been talking to him over a year now, and he has been scammer me this whole time, the last picture that I asked of them to send didn't look right. So I started doing some digging of myself such as no social media on his name, and I know why now, so I looked up all the picture he has sent me on revise images then I saw this page and a lot of pages of scams. He talks only on hangouts, Using the name by John Robert Spencer Ward and email goes by ---REDACTED---. Also, he has a twin sister that goes by Emily Ward that lives somewhere in the UK, which I'm sure it is his partner in crime. His story is that he needs money to help out his a mom in Las Vegas, which is a lie!!! I do feel sorry for that real person in those pictures. It took me over a year to know I guess he excellent in his words and the way he says it. Overall, block this person ASAP and never believe what he says or does. T…
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I have been talking to him over a year now, and he has been scammer me this whole time, the last picture that I asked of them to send didn't look right. So I started doing some digging of myself such as no social media on his name, and I know why now, so I looked up all the picture he has sent me on revise images then I saw this page and a lot of pages of scams. He talks only on hangouts, Using the name by John Robert Spencer Ward and email goes by ---REDACTED---. Also, he has a twin sister that goes by Emily Ward that lives somewhere in the UK, which I'm sure it is his partner in crime. His story is that he needs money to help out his a mom in Las Vegas, which is a lie!!! I do feel sorry for that real person in those pictures. It took me over a year to know I guess he excellent in his words and the way he says it. Overall, block this person ASAP and never believe what he says or does. These scammers are the worst. I hope someone the real guy who in that picture knows someone is using his images all over social media.

Scam email · 2019

One thing I am tired of is high power bills.
I want to share with you a way to never for power again.
Call (---REDACTED--- or Visit Here ---LINK REDACTED---









---LINK REDACTED--- to stop all communications.
---ADDRESS REDACTED---, Englewood, Colorado 80113

Messages from a scammer · 2019

Didn't write me in his email on hangouts but he went off hangout after scam me.he sent me a bad check I paid open and May 31 2019 I send him Amazon cards to give to the UN 500.00 worth to get flight out of Syria he lie to me so I'm loseing a place to live he knew that.he scam me out of 1,081.00 with the bad check and Amazon cards.he needs to be stop he get on Instagram Facebook messenger I knew there is other women I'm not the only one.

AnyScam Scam Database Removal Request

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