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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

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.

Scam email · 2018

Date sent: Oct 21 2018

Dating for sex

---LINK REDACTED---

WARNING: This website contains explicit pictures, videos, stories, images,
or sounds
You must be 18 yearmisterteam17s 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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unsubscribe:
Please reply with UNSUBSCRIBE subject.
---VICTIM REDACTED---

Scam email · 2018

Date sent: Oct 22, 2018
Subject: Local date for sex!

On our website people meet each other with the only aim to have sex as fast
as possible

---LINK REDACTED---
You must be 18 years 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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unsubscribe:
Please reply with UNSUBSCRIBE subject.
---VICTIM REDACTED---

A scammer’s profile text · 2018

This is all false information provided
Derrick Peter Lloyd
DOB: 10/27/---ADDRESS REDACTED---
Pasadena, CA 91105
Phone: ---REDACTED--- - he will text from it but says it does not work to talk on the phone.
email: ---REDACTED---

Scam email · 2018

Date sent: Oct 12 2018, 00:07 AM
Subject: Local date for sex!

On our website people meet each other with the only aim to have sex as fast
as possible

---LINK REDACTED---
You must be 18 years 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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unsubscribe:
Please reply with UNSUBSCRIBE subject.
---VICTIM REDACTED---

Scam email · 2018

He used it to try to correspond with me to transfer money from an account in th UK I have texts and screenshots of everything

A scammer’s profile text · 2018

Scammer wants me the fill up a form as he stated required so I can visit him in his country

A scammer’s profile text · 2018

People with status don't need status!!!!!
Managing Director in Unknown zone
From Sapele, Nigeria
In a relationship with Va Lue
Has 285 followers

A scammer’s profile text · 2018

An oil engineer from Texas .54 years old ,a son 7 years old his wife died from cancer
Born and raise in Italy from his grandmother ho raise now his son

Messages from a scammer · 2018

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A scammer’s profile text · 2018

Given Adresse in UK:
---ADDRESS REDACTED---
Sketty, Swansea / W. Glamorgen
SA2 OQE UK
Given Adresse in Malaysia:
Blk A, 131-01 D'Pulze Res. Condo
63000 Cyberjaya, Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

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.