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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

These items were reported to SCARS Institute in connection with scams. A listing is a report, not proof. If something here is yours and is listed in error, please request its removal.

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 · 2016

Dearest, if you could remember, I told you before that I work with crude oil/gas. I want to let you know that I will be traveling to Turkey, in Europe. I will travel to there by ship. Which means I will travel by ship sailing. I'm traveling to Turkey, because of my work. I want to go and buy crude oil worth 800,000 Euro, to sell for my customers.

Messages from a scammer · 2016

babe where are u? why u didn't talk to me? I really need money babe for her school u told me u will send me the last we chat..i talked to her teacher last week and I told her I will give the money this week..babe if u cant support angel for her school please let me know.. don't leave me like this..:(

Messages from a scammer · 2016

He is telling you has a daugther, in fact he uses photo's of his younger sister...
He has been a baletdancer look at this link, ---LINK REDACTED---
He has been on a TV show look at this link, ---LINK REDACTED---

A scammer’s profile text · 2016

1ST PROFILE
---LINK REDACTED---
Sub-contractor/supplier at Hitachi Group
Studied at Florida International University
Went to Miami High School
Lives in Dublin, Ireland
From Miami, Florida

2nd PROFILE
---LINK REDACTED---
Contract Administrator/Project Manager/Subcontractor at Hitachi Group
Studied at University of Florida
Went to Miami Beach High School
Lives in Dublin, Ireland
From Miami, Florida

Messages from a scammer · 2016

He asks money from women after telling them he loves them. He said to a victim, he went to Philippines to buy stuff for job and got robbed and they shut his bank acct down and the woman sent him money to get home and to pay doctor bills and he told her he would pay her back and he's changing the dates on when she is getting money. She sent money to someone in Philippines.

A scammer’s profile text · 2016

Worked at Business
Lives in Hamilton, New Zealand
Divorced
From Hamilton Bay, New Zealand

Scam email · 2016

on Vacationrentals.com inquiry they sent this

Hello,

Thanks for your response, I have discuss with my wife and we both
interested in your property. I will be coming with my wife from Washington
and due to the unsecured use of credit card or other online payment, we
will arrange for payment inform of US cashier check or bank certified check

FULL NAME AND ADDRESS
PHONE NUMBER
DIRECT EMAIL ADDRESS
TOTAL AMOUNT

Kindly get back to me with mailing information to enable us mail the
payment to you on time via USPS. If we have any contract form to fill out,
we will do that on our arrival to your location, because I don't want to
fill any form online so that my physical signature will appear, but you can
send it for my review and I will get it filled physically on our arrival.

Regards

A scammer’s profile text · 2016

• Studied at University of Cambridge
• Went to Cambridge
• Lives in Canada, Kentucky
• Single
• From Canada, Kentucky

A scammer’s profile text · 2016

Bank statement is required for them to know that am credible that someday i will surely come back to your country, many people have tried "game" the system. In order to be issued a Visa i need to show or proof that i have sufficient funds to cover me legal stay in a foreign country ., The minimum amount that will be sufficient to provide for my bank statement is 10000 US Dollars , Without me having this Sufficient amount of Funds to provide as my bank statement i wont be granted a Visa , I will print Out the bank statement to provide it for the Visa application and will have my Visa approve. I need you to Help me out with the funds to create a bank account in order to have the bank statement and we can be together ... The Most sweetest thing about this bank statement is that not a penny will be taking from the bank statement money by anyone, when am finally in the States we will be able…
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Bank statement is required for them to know that am credible that someday i will surely come back to your country, many people have tried "game" the system. In order to be issued a Visa i need to show or proof that i have sufficient funds to cover me legal stay in a foreign country ., The minimum amount that will be sufficient to provide for my bank statement is 10000 US Dollars , Without me having this Sufficient amount of Funds to provide as my bank statement i wont be granted a Visa , I will print Out the bank statement to provide it for the Visa application and will have my Visa approve. I need you to Help me out with the funds to create a bank account in order to have the bank statement and we can be together ... The Most sweetest thing about this bank statement is that not a penny will be taking from the bank statement money by anyone, when am finally in the States we will be able withdraw out all the 10000 US Dollars back , I only Need this funds in order for me to have my Visa approved . I Love You So Much and Cant wait for us to Finally be together

Messages from a scammer · 2016

Good morning my love. I know you don't need another reminder because I tell you a thousand times a day how much I love you, but I do and that is my only way to show you. I love the hundred ways you show me how much you love me, and I know my simple words can never compare. From day one, I knew there was something in you that no other guy had. You are the most AMAZING guy I have ever known. Thinking back to the strange way we met, how we grow so close in just a few short days, and how you were the first one to show me the meaning of true love, it makes me smile and fall all over for you again. You melt me every time you tell me about the future that you want to spend with me and how we could show the world the real meaning of being in love with the right person. Love you always and always and I can't wait to spend the rest of my life together with you.

Your Priscilla ---VICTIM REDACTED-…
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Good morning my love. I know you don't need another reminder because I tell you a thousand times a day how much I love you, but I do and that is my only way to show you. I love the hundred ways you show me how much you love me, and I know my simple words can never compare. From day one, I knew there was something in you that no other guy had. You are the most AMAZING guy I have ever known. Thinking back to the strange way we met, how we grow so close in just a few short days, and how you were the first one to show me the meaning of true love, it makes me smile and fall all over for you again. You melt me every time you tell me about the future that you want to spend with me and how we could show the world the real meaning of being in love with the right person. Love you always and always and I can't wait to spend the rest of my life together with you.

Your Priscilla ---VICTIM REDACTED---

AnyScam Scam Database Removal Request

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