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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 · 2024

We respond to email messages in the order that they’re received and promise to respond to your email as quickly as possible. All feedback will be sent directly to the editorial team for review. Any and all communications from InvestorPlace Media, LLC employees should not be considered personalized investment advice. We thank you for taking the time to contact us, and we look forward to helping you with your inquiry. If you have a time sensitive issue we recommend that you call our customer service department directly at (---REDACTED---.



Tyler Seabolt
Director – Member Services
InvestorPlace Media, LLC.
---ADDRESS REDACTED---
Baltimore MD 21021

Scam email · 2024

But contemptuous.

Over the ninety length mark, they're useless.---LINK REDACTED---

A scammer’s profile text · 2024

He first set a profile on FaceBook as Adams Johnson and sent pictures of Dr. Fernando Gomes Pinto. next He said his real name is Jackson Williams. he said he was born in Akron, Ohio but now is a neurosurgeon in Bridgetown, Barbados. The last picture he sent I put on Face checkers and it came up with many photos of the real person, All scammed. He claims to have a son Maxwell in a boarding school in Germany.

Messages from a scammer · 2024

He copies texts from romantic things to say to a girl. "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps, hurdles, leaps, fences,penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope" " In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours" and many more. I ws sure he is really who he says his son is and that email is Maxwell Boy at ---REDACTED---

Scam email · 2024

Look to the world beyond for recompense, Elan.One of them cannot move his hands or his arms.

---LINK REDACTED---

A scammer’s profile text · 2024

This is from the fraudsters X profile. Originally it was on Twitter.
"He who gets rid of darkness knows the value of light best."

Scam email · 2024

Just get him, can you?---LINK REDACTED---

Scam email · 2024

You can come by my apartment or you can host doesn’t matter to me babe. All i ask is that you to come on a free cam chat by using your email only before I sent you my address,It will not ask for an credit card just use your email & make a profile here :

My Address & Phone Number
and my user name is : funnyhot69 .... No cc so i hope u can do that.

Scam email · 2024

Hello Baby.....How Are you

what is your Postal code ....?

Text me Now :::::::::::::

i am waiting for you..........?

Scam email · 2024

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Can We Spend Some Good Time On Bed

RU Married

Verizon Samsung Galaxy

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.