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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.

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.

A scammer’s profile text · 2016

Studied at San Francisco State University
Lives in California City, California
Single
From Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Messages from a scammer · 2016

oboy where u dey na
nor be so
bye oboy u nor won to talk me abi
l lost my mom since 1982 why my father died out of cancer
l what you to explain better for me, my please dear
please l have be call now
not angry l want you send me another that l why ask
you ask for state time that is why
my dear can we later l was call now
my dear it bring me so sad
nobody to make my happy
Are you sales
so what is your pension there
l we replay to email okay

Messages from a scammer · 2016

so are you will to talk about married as women friend
so are you will to get married to man like me in your life friend oh my God
and get happy as married woman friend
and ö see you are one of the bad friend right
oh my God tell the truth right now okay . Who are you now friend
Amswe NY question right now
so are you a man or woman friend ???
Me am from United States and here work in th sea right friend
call me right now found
what are you doing as woman for a living friend
Hope you know how to make a good rest as woman you are friend

Messages from a scammer · 2016

oboy where u dey na
nor be so
bye oboy u nor won to talk me abi

Messages from a scammer · 2016

wants you to open a bankaccount for him. Counterfeith scam with fake money transfer

A scammer’s profile text · 2016

• Surgeon at U.S. Army
• Former Medical Assistant/Surgery Coordinator at Harvard Hospital
• Studied Surgery at American Military University
• Went to American Military University
• Lives in Kabul, Afghanistan
• Widowed
• From London, United Kingdom

Messages from a scammer · 2016

adress for money. :
Zenith Bank Humul Armah A/C Number ---REDACTED--- Achimota Branch
SWIFT CODE ZEBLGHAC
Address is Zenith Bank Ghana Ltd Premier Towers Accra

A scammer’s profile text · 2016

Hablando acerca de mi mismo, me encanta amigos y familia, soy una persona divertida y hacer amigos con facilidad. Amo la vida, amo a mi familia y aún así tener un poco de amor para compartir con una mujer especial. La vida puede ser solo sin alguien ... yo soy una persona que es muy real cuando se trata de la vida y sus problemas . Soy honesto amable cuidadoso cariñoso buen sentido,,, del humor, tranquilo, pensador libre, digno de confianza y respetar la vida de otras personas ..

Messages from a scammer · 2016

send 500 Euros for an interview about my work ...
over money gram and that is the adress/Name for to send that money.....
Ahmed Dramani,
zip: 00233
Country: Ghana,
City: Accra.....

A scammer’s profile text · 2016

• Engineer at Hanjin Shipping
• Self-employed
• Lives in Liverpool
• Widowed
• From Cologne, Germany

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.