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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.

Scam email · 2019

Hello,
I need money
My site ---LINK REDACTED--- and ---LINK REDACTED---

Scam email · 2019

Subject: Dating for sex
Date sent: Sat, ---REDACTED---:21

---LINK REDACTED---

WARNING: This website contains explicit pictures, videos, stories, images,
or sounds
You must be 18 yearmark1239s of age or older to enter. If you are under 18,
or if it is forbidden to view this content in your community, you must leave
this site.


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To stop receiving emails, please write us or email us at the following
addresses:

Direct Engineering Ltd.
Poland Warsaw Cherwowska 12-44
---REDACTED---
or
Stallion.com FSC Limited
---ADDRESS REDACTED---, Kingston, W.I. 10 JM
---REDACTED---

Scam email · 2019

Never pay for an auto repair bill again!
Visit ---LINK REDACTED---




















Want to be taken off?
Go Here: ---LINK REDACTED---
or ---ADDRESS REDACTED--- | Visalia, CA, US | 93292

Scam email · 2019

You were recently chosen as a potential candidate to represent your professional community in the The 2019 Worldwide Association of Female Professionals
We are please to inform you that your candidacy was formally approved Congratulations!
The Publishing Committee selected you as a potential candidate based not only upon your current standing,
but focusing as well on criteria from facebook along with other executive professional directories, associations, and trade journals.
---LINK REDACTED---

Given your background our Director believes your profile makes a fitting addition to our online and hardcover publications.
There is no fee nor obligation to be listed. As we are working off of secondary sources, we must receive verification from you that your profile is accurate.
---LINK REDACTED---

Once finalized, your listing will share prominent registry space with thousands of fellow a…
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You were recently chosen as a potential candidate to represent your professional community in the The 2019 Worldwide Association of Female Professionals
We are please to inform you that your candidacy was formally approved Congratulations!
The Publishing Committee selected you as a potential candidate based not only upon your current standing,
but focusing as well on criteria from facebook along with other executive professional directories, associations, and trade journals.
---LINK REDACTED---

Given your background our Director believes your profile makes a fitting addition to our online and hardcover publications.
There is no fee nor obligation to be listed. As we are working off of secondary sources, we must receive verification from you that your profile is accurate.
---LINK REDACTED---

Once finalized, your listing will share prominent registry space with thousands of fellow accomplished individuals across the globe, each representing accomplishment within their own geographical area.
To verify your profile and accept the candidacy, please visit here ---LINK REDACTED--- Our registration deadline for this year's candidates is coming up fast.
To ensure you are included, we must receive your verification on as soon as possible.
On behalf of our Committee I salute your achievement and welcome you to our association.
---LINK REDACTED---












Want to be left out?
Go Here: ---LINK REDACTED---
or write to ---ADDRESS REDACTED---, Fort Washington, PA 19034

A scammer’s profile text · 2019

2+ years of evidence present. Below one example Thank you

My phone is extremely sick today, and thus made me write such a big email.
P.S ** - In ancient Japan, when people have a secret they cant bear with them anymore, they climb up a mountain, find a tree, carve a small hole, and whisper it all. That way they feel relived of the burden. The sercret remains safe in that hole forever without even being questioned nor judged.

Following are the details to my account baba.

Name- SHAHEEN MAYINKUTTY
Bank- Emirates NBD
PO:Box: 777
Dubai, UAE
A/c # ---REDACTED---
IBAN- AE---REDACTED---
Routing Code- ---REDACTED---

Messages from a scammer · 2019

---LINK REDACTED---

2+ years Evidence present on all crimes

Messages from a scammer · 2019

Sorry I can’t do it from my phone, I can send by email or other way all the information.

Messages from a scammer · 2019

Person in Ghana helping this person
Abdul Razak
Mohammed kamaldeem
Ghana Tamale zip code +233 this might be the scammer. Claimed to work in IT at ICS.

Scam email · 2019

Date Sent: Mon ---REDACTED---:58
Subject: ---VICTIM REDACTED---, The package : WULJ-3981402-USYWP could not be delivered

Dear ---VICTIM REDACTED---,
We would like to inform you that your package could not be delivered due to incomplete information of your physcial address.
Please use the button below to update your personal address .

---LINK REDACTED---

A scammer’s profile text · 2019

Hello sir i found out you have already a hookup id card.. you only have to do is pay for the hookup id delivery to yet your actual id card.. the hookup id delivery pay is 150$ and its refundable after 2hrs so you dont have to worry about. and you will receive your hookup id in just 30 minutes.. so are you going to pay the delivery today so we will send you the details?
Hey I’m about to send the 150 to get verified... what happens after it’s sent?
hello sir. ---VICTIM REDACTED--- tell you that there is a problem with our system so we can 't process your hookup id you need to send another 150 to be able to process your hookup id we are going to used our another system to verified your account nothing to worry sir its all refundable if you send another 150 we will refund your money a total of 300 after 1hr and you will receive your id in just 10 minutes only im very sorry for this prob…
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Hello sir i found out you have already a hookup id card.. you only have to do is pay for the hookup id delivery to yet your actual id card.. the hookup id delivery pay is 150$ and its refundable after 2hrs so you dont have to worry about. and you will receive your hookup id in just 30 minutes.. so are you going to pay the delivery today so we will send you the details?
Hey I’m about to send the 150 to get verified... what happens after it’s sent?
hello sir. ---VICTIM REDACTED--- tell you that there is a problem with our system so we can 't process your hookup id you need to send another 150 to be able to process your hookup id we are going to used our another system to verified your account nothing to worry sir its all refundable if you send another 150 we will refund your money a total of 300 after 1hr and you will receive your id in just 10 minutes only im very sorry for this problem sir

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.