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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 · 2016

Good day,

Please kindly provide the following information :

Contact number:
Purpose of Permit:
Relationship with officer:
Occupation:
Address :

To further be able to process your request.

Kind regards
Officer in Charge

Ps: Note that an exit form application fee is applicable ($1000 usd)

Scam email · 2016

UNITED STATE OF AMERICA
1700 DEFENSE PENTAGON
WASHINGTON D.C WA . US ---REDACTED---.
THIS IS THE DEPARTMENT IN CHARGE OF THE 44TH BATTALION IN CHAD SERVICE AND ISLAMIC INSURGENCY IN NIGERIA MEMBERS AND DEFENSE DEPARTMENT.
DEAR MADAM. ---VICTIM REDACTED--- HAVE A REST AND RECUPERATION LEAVE PROGRAM THAT ALLOWS THEM TAKE UP FOR EXCLUDING TRAVEL TIME TO VISIT FAMILY OR FRIENDS IN THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, PHILIPPINES, UNITED KINGDOM, HOLLAND ,SPAIN ,AUSTRALIA, FRANCE AND OTHER COUNTRIES.
BESIDES, MOST COMMANDER HAVE A SPECIFIC NUMBER OF ALLOCATIONS FOR THE PROGRAM AT ANY GIVEN TIME AND INVOKE OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS IN DECIDING WHO GOES AND WHEN. WE JUST GOT YOUR LEAVE REQUEST FOR E-5 SGT CHRISTOPHER GARY WITH THE DEPLOYMENT NUMBER (CG05EFOLK)
WE ARE CURRENTLY PROCESSING IT. BUT BEFORE THE APPROVAL, WE NEED YOU TO PAY THE TOTAL SUM OF $1200USD FOR THE PAPER WORK AND SIGNATORY SO THAT H…
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UNITED STATE OF AMERICA
1700 DEFENSE PENTAGON
WASHINGTON D.C WA . US ---REDACTED---.
THIS IS THE DEPARTMENT IN CHARGE OF THE 44TH BATTALION IN CHAD SERVICE AND ISLAMIC INSURGENCY IN NIGERIA MEMBERS AND DEFENSE DEPARTMENT.
DEAR MADAM. ---VICTIM REDACTED--- HAVE A REST AND RECUPERATION LEAVE PROGRAM THAT ALLOWS THEM TAKE UP FOR EXCLUDING TRAVEL TIME TO VISIT FAMILY OR FRIENDS IN THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, PHILIPPINES, UNITED KINGDOM, HOLLAND ,SPAIN ,AUSTRALIA, FRANCE AND OTHER COUNTRIES.
BESIDES, MOST COMMANDER HAVE A SPECIFIC NUMBER OF ALLOCATIONS FOR THE PROGRAM AT ANY GIVEN TIME AND INVOKE OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS IN DECIDING WHO GOES AND WHEN. WE JUST GOT YOUR LEAVE REQUEST FOR E-5 SGT CHRISTOPHER GARY WITH THE DEPLOYMENT NUMBER (CG05EFOLK)
WE ARE CURRENTLY PROCESSING IT. BUT BEFORE THE APPROVAL, WE NEED YOU TO PAY THE TOTAL SUM OF $1200USD FOR THE PAPER WORK AND SIGNATORY SO THAT HE WILL BE ALLOWED TO LEAVE HERE TO MEET YOU IN YOUR COUNTRY AS YOU HAVE REQUESTED . YOUR PARTNER HAS NO ACCESS TO HIS FUNDS DOWN HERE DUE TO SECURITY PURPOSE AND WILL BE GRANTED ACCESS TO IT AS SOON AS HE LEAVES DOWN HERE. YOU ARE TO SEND IT TO OUR AGENT THROUGH WESTERN UNION OR MONEYGRAMME AND GET BACK TO US WITH THE FULL DETAILS OF THE PAYMENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
THE WARRANT AGENT ADDRESS NAME:GLORIA KELLEY, CITY: ATLANTA, STATE: GEORGIA, ZIPCODE: 30331, COUNTRY: U.S.A.
THIS WARRANT IS ISSUED OUT TO ''......'' ON THE LEAVE REQUEST OF OUR BASE MEMBER, (MSR) THE REQUEST TRANSIT SCRIPT IS AUTHORIZED. CONSTANT RULE OF ARMY CODE 2A/13/KSF-6-6-3 COY
★US ARMY CONSTRUCT.......}}}»»
Sent from military commanding unit wireless zone

A scammer’s profile text · 2016

Orphanage Leader
LOVE KIDS ORPHANAGE FOUNDATION
Jan 2001 – Present (15 years 8 months) Parkow, Berlin, Germany
My responsibilities include making sure the children are taken care of and that every nonprofit charity that support to the Foundation have proper documentation and in legal compliance under my leadership each day.
Management Accountant
Advise Technologies
Advise Technologies was established as a modest start-up firm created by a group of experienced fund professionals. Today, Advise is a rapidly growing company, gaining international recognition with offices in New York, London, Berlin, Paris, San Francisco, Dublin, Amsterdam, and Kansas.
Jan 2001 – Present (15 yrs. 8 MThs) Berlin Area, Germany

Certifications
Business Management
Approved Index
Acquired Jan 2001
Publication
Miss
Jan 2001
Languages – Dutch, German, English


Have the three (3) C's - Confident, Considerate and Ca…
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Orphanage Leader
LOVE KIDS ORPHANAGE FOUNDATION
Jan 2001 – Present (15 years 8 months) Parkow, Berlin, Germany
My responsibilities include making sure the children are taken care of and that every nonprofit charity that support to the Foundation have proper documentation and in legal compliance under my leadership each day.
Management Accountant
Advise Technologies
Advise Technologies was established as a modest start-up firm created by a group of experienced fund professionals. Today, Advise is a rapidly growing company, gaining international recognition with offices in New York, London, Berlin, Paris, San Francisco, Dublin, Amsterdam, and Kansas.
Jan 2001 – Present (15 yrs. 8 MThs) Berlin Area, Germany

Certifications
Business Management
Approved Index
Acquired Jan 2001
Publication
Miss
Jan 2001
Languages – Dutch, German, English


Have the three (3) C's - Confident, Considerate and Caring... I have a very balanced, tactful, easy-going and active personality. I don’t like conflicts and deceit. I am absolutely fair and decent. I am not able to betray or hurt. I am able to listen and hear what I listen to. They say I am very pretty, out-going, gentle, positive, feminine, caring, smart, humorous. Romantic is always in my heart and I want it to come out for some-one special. I am waiting for the one to give my heart to and never look back to the past. He should be intelligent, warm-hearted, gentle, purposeful, optimistic, affectionate, active, reliable, good-looking and the one who desires family.

Messages from a scammer · 2016

Hudu Amadu
Sep 29 (1 day ago)


to me





All the best with you and Ernestina very funny .. You think she will be with you .. You can send all your money to her , I don't care.. So far as she is scamming , I don't care .. We shall see if she will come to you or not after sending her all the money she needs .. For now you re crazy and madly in love with her , nothing will make you stop chatting with her. Keep it up Mr. ---VICTIM REDACTED--- , funny ass .. He think that young girl loves you.. You re very very funny .. All the best , don't text me again do you hear that .. Keep it up with Ernestina .i don't need unfaithful men in my life .. You are not serious man , all what you know is women women , they will also let you down ..and put you where you belong ..keep sending her money okay. You always end up with scammers , that is punishment from God 

Hudu Amadu
Sep 4


to me





---V…
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Hudu Amadu
Sep 29 (1 day ago)


to me





All the best with you and Ernestina very funny .. You think she will be with you .. You can send all your money to her , I don't care.. So far as she is scamming , I don't care .. We shall see if she will come to you or not after sending her all the money she needs .. For now you re crazy and madly in love with her , nothing will make you stop chatting with her. Keep it up Mr. ---VICTIM REDACTED--- , funny ass .. He think that young girl loves you.. You re very very funny .. All the best , don't text me again do you hear that .. Keep it up with Ernestina .i don't need unfaithful men in my life .. You are not serious man , all what you know is women women , they will also let you down ..and put you where you belong ..keep sending her money okay. You always end up with scammers , that is punishment from God 

Hudu Amadu
Sep 4


to me





---VICTIM REDACTED--- ,Listen to me. i don't care about you borrowing from anyone.. if by Tuesday , you sit your ass there and tell me you are borrowing.. while you can send the funds your self... i won't tolerate any games from you. miss out and don't send on Tuesday morning and see what will happen...

On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 10:00 AM, ---VICTIM REDACTED--- wrote:
Tony,

As a friend I asking you to lend me $2,100 until Saturday which I will repay to you immediately on Sunday through Money Gram or Western Union electronic transfer.


Thank you your strong consideration.

A scammer’s profile text · 2016

Studied at University of Strathclyde
Lives in Leicester, United Kingdom
Divorced
From Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Messages from a scammer · 2016

He said He is an civilengineer from Uk..Has no Account in Malaysia... I should send the money on the Account of his agent there
He must build up a shoppingcenter. IT is a Muslime country and he need money to work there
Since 4 weeks He is in hospital and cannot Pay the bill of hospital.
He has money, and showed his bankaccount. But said he has no access to his account because he is in Malaysia.
Money had to be sent to the bankaccount of his agent.
Money receiver is Chrystian Teh from Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
---LINK REDACTED---

Scam email · 2016

UNITED STATE OF AMERICA
1700 DEFENSE PENTAGON
WASHINGTON D.C WA . US ---REDACTED---.
THIS IS THE DEPARTMENT IN CHARGE OF THE 44TH BATTALION IN CHAD SERVICE AND INSURGENCY IN NIGERIA MEMBERS AND DEFENSE DEPARTMENT.
Dear madam,
We really appreciate your efforts to make a prestigious step to know deeply about the man you meet on the Internet cause if all the people who are victim of scam which were scammed by fake profile as make this step they might not be scammed cause you really make a responsible step to know all about the person your are in love with on Internet
Madam we are to inform about the personnel you forward his detail to us pretending to be a us army officer in Chad base

(Ortiz David Johnson with the rank and service number E8Ranked Sniper and PatroL SGT,i command the ALFATEAM 3 Section 20 Unit 3)

Which all his pretended information given to you ,
madam you should have kn…
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UNITED STATE OF AMERICA
1700 DEFENSE PENTAGON
WASHINGTON D.C WA . US ---REDACTED---.
THIS IS THE DEPARTMENT IN CHARGE OF THE 44TH BATTALION IN CHAD SERVICE AND INSURGENCY IN NIGERIA MEMBERS AND DEFENSE DEPARTMENT.
Dear madam,
We really appreciate your efforts to make a prestigious step to know deeply about the man you meet on the Internet cause if all the people who are victim of scam which were scammed by fake profile as make this step they might not be scammed cause you really make a responsible step to know all about the person your are in love with on Internet
Madam we are to inform about the personnel you forward his detail to us pretending to be a us army officer in Chad base

(Ortiz David Johnson with the rank and service number E8Ranked Sniper and PatroL SGT,i command the ALFATEAM 3 Section 20 Unit 3)

Which all his pretended information given to you ,
madam you should have known that he doesn't belongs to any department In the US ARMY even not been on deployment

Sergeant (E5) and Master Sergeant and First Sergeant ( E8 )
It's impossible for an officer to belongs to two different rank cause E5 and E8 are different ranks
Sending of request payment are not allowed to African countries for now due the scam alert all over Africa
Thank you for your understanding
we are here to serve you better
Thank you for your cooperation
Gen. Carstein Lambert.
US Defense Pentagon Unit
Afghan/Iraq/Sudan/Chad/. Middle East Command Zone
Alpha-Special Forces/MPC/0914178
US ARMY .
THIS WARRANT IS ISSUED OUT TO Mrs (.....)
(MSR) THE REQUEST TRANSIT SCRIPT IS AUTHORIZED. CONSTANT RULE OF ARMY CODE 2A/13/KSF-6-3-2COY
★US ARMY CONSTRUCT.......}}}»»

Sent from military commanding unit wireless zone

Scam email · 2016

Dear Miss (.....), we are pleased to inform you that the progress will be made on the LEAVE processing of your fiancé sergeant Ortiz David Johnson the instructions and procedural informations given to you by our office should be strictly CONFIDENTIAL and the rules must be adhered to. To enable a successful implementation and discharge of duty in regards to the regulations.
You are thereby to keep this informations intact and with no interference from a third party with respect to this leave process you will have to continue with the payment of:
4weeks........$800
8weeks........$1600
12weeks......$2400
16weeks.....$3200
Then you will have to send the airport which you expect the serviceman to stop to us. After the payments is being made. The officer will get to his destination after 48hours
NOTE THAT YOU'RE ONLY PAYING FOR YOUR FIANCÉE VACATION LEAVE ACCESS CARD..THE MONEY PAID FOR …
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Dear Miss (.....), we are pleased to inform you that the progress will be made on the LEAVE processing of your fiancé sergeant Ortiz David Johnson the instructions and procedural informations given to you by our office should be strictly CONFIDENTIAL and the rules must be adhered to. To enable a successful implementation and discharge of duty in regards to the regulations.
You are thereby to keep this informations intact and with no interference from a third party with respect to this leave process you will have to continue with the payment of:
4weeks........$800
8weeks........$1600
12weeks......$2400
16weeks.....$3200
Then you will have to send the airport which you expect the serviceman to stop to us. After the payments is being made. The officer will get to his destination after 48hours
NOTE THAT YOU'RE ONLY PAYING FOR YOUR FIANCÉE VACATION LEAVE ACCESS CARD..THE MONEY PAID FOR HIS ACCESS CARD IS A REFUNDABLE FUND. Here is the address of US diplomat agent...
Name.......Alexander Daniel
Address....---ADDRESS REDACTED--- ikeja lagos nigeria
City.....Lagos
Country...Nigeria
Zip-code.....+2341
You need to send it via Western union or money gram and you will have to write me back the details and MTCN of the payment... And the payment informations
We will get back to you as soon as possible for more informations pertaining to the progress of the leave.

REGARDS PROCESSING OFFICER
USA military wireless

Scam email · 2016

DEPARTMENT OF THE US ARMY
3rd Battalion,infantry,Regiment
Djibouti Chad
24th September, 2016

Attention:

---VICTIM REDACTED---
Vacation have been approved for sergeant ORTIZ DAVID JOHNSON and it is our duty to give proper informations concerning the vacation including flight ticket reservations, this does not charge for non-military personnel(civilians) vacation also but there's a slight different in procedure when converting to Non-military personnel (civilian) vacation.
Conversation of a Non-military personnel (civilian) is free but requires $1000 security assurance which Mrs Marlena David Johnson (civilian) needs to meet up with below requirements in order to continue with vacation booking for Sgt Ortiz Johnson.....
VACATION PROCESSING:$800
CERTIFICATE APPROVAL:$500
SECURITY::$1000
TOTAL:$2300
Kindly note that security fee and vacation fee is refundable fund which will be automatica…
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DEPARTMENT OF THE US ARMY
3rd Battalion,infantry,Regiment
Djibouti Chad
24th September, 2016

Attention:

---VICTIM REDACTED---
Vacation have been approved for sergeant ORTIZ DAVID JOHNSON and it is our duty to give proper informations concerning the vacation including flight ticket reservations, this does not charge for non-military personnel(civilians) vacation also but there's a slight different in procedure when converting to Non-military personnel (civilian) vacation.
Conversation of a Non-military personnel (civilian) is free but requires $1000 security assurance which Mrs Marlena David Johnson (civilian) needs to meet up with below requirements in order to continue with vacation booking for Sgt Ortiz Johnson.....
VACATION PROCESSING:$800
CERTIFICATE APPROVAL:$500
SECURITY::$1000
TOTAL:$2300
Kindly note that security fee and vacation fee is refundable fund which will be automatically refunded back to you by the United state Army vacation board as soon as the military personnel Sgt Ortiz Johnson confirmed his safety on arrival to his destination location.
Security fee is only been required for safety purpose. We assure you that your fiancé will get to you within 48hours...
Kindly make a payment via western union or money gram outlet around you.
Note: you can do the payment twice so it gonna be convenient with you
Once again we wish you a pleasant vacation moment.

Ass.Gen James Walcott
USA military wireless

Scam email · 2016

From: paul cregan (---REDACTED---)
Date: 2016/7/8, Fri 14:42

My dearest wife
How was are you today?
Hope all is alright
I want to give you detail about the gold bars you will receive,
the worth of the gold is more than $1 million dollars but i declare the worth at
$900,000 to the company as they asked me.

Honestly i want you to understand that i am sending this precious and valuable commodity
because i love and trust as my beloved wife and i wish to meet you soon to start our
bright and wonderful future as couples.I know you love me too and i appreciate it so much.

Darling, you know i am very busy here on this duty, I will be going for my last mission against terrorist
strong hold in a remote region on Saturday is gonna be two days mission,
please always pray for me as usual.

I sent the item yesterday being 7th of July
I attached the air way bill receipt and the brown box i s…
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From: paul cregan (---REDACTED---)
Date: 2016/7/8, Fri 14:42

My dearest wife
How was are you today?
Hope all is alright
I want to give you detail about the gold bars you will receive,
the worth of the gold is more than $1 million dollars but i declare the worth at
$900,000 to the company as they asked me.

Honestly i want you to understand that i am sending this precious and valuable commodity
because i love and trust as my beloved wife and i wish to meet you soon to start our
bright and wonderful future as couples.I know you love me too and i appreciate it so much.

Darling, you know i am very busy here on this duty, I will be going for my last mission against terrorist
strong hold in a remote region on Saturday is gonna be two days mission,
please always pray for me as usual.

I sent the item yesterday being 7th of July
I attached the air way bill receipt and the brown box i sent that contain the gold, it weighs 22 kilogram .
The box key number is 233 left and 343 right to open the box, so you can see the good quality of it.

Darling with the market value of the gold when sold, we can have more comfortable life as one family ,travel together ,
have good home to live and much more, that is why i am working very hard for our bright future so we can support each other in building our family.

The tracking information for you to track the location online until you receive it are below.

Open the company Website below and you can tract the location
---LINK REDACTED---

Tracking number is: R---REDACTED---

Take good care of yourself ,Keep me informed as you tract it online because i will not have time to check on it,
I love and thinking of you always
yours husband
Paul

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