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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

Works at United States Army
Lives in Newark, New Jersey
From Newark, New Jersey

Messages from a scammer · 2016

address to send money to is
David Green
No21 Army Barrack
Ojoo Ibaden
State Oyo City of Ibaden
Nigeria 23402
---LINK REDACTED---

A scammer’s profile text · 2016

• Studied at Virginia Wesleyan College
• Went to Granby High School
• Lives in Norfolk, Virginia

Messages from a scammer · 2016

Hello honey, Underneath is the details which you can use to remit the money Honey note that you are to send the money via MoneyGram only.
Receiver's details;
SURNAME: Okoh
NAME: Emmanuel Oso
COUNTRY: Cyprus
ADDRESS: Fasto apt
you can easily send 2,699.14 EUR or 2700 EUR with that details i sent to you the details i sent to you is the details of one of the Cypriot Custom officials the address on my Passport is an american address i cannot use my passport/ID card to receive money here in Cyprus because i am not a citizen of Cyprus.
Thanks a lot honey I appreciate I love you
Your darling Carr

Messages from a scammer · 2016

richard demetrio
To ---VICTIM REDACTED--- May 29 at 7:30 AM
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Good Morning baby Dathul said she doesnt have 100 to lend me and she wont be at work this morning its her day off so baby here is it pls send 170 i want to buy something on the way dont ask me its meant to be a suprise ok and more so baby use this name instead ok

Edythe E Cuprys

you should have it on one of your receipts
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Messages from a scammer · 2016

Hello madam. ---VICTIM REDACTED--- Daniel from Nigeria
Madam Mr Alexander has been admitted to our hospital
And he is sofering from internal bleeding and over heart breathing
We need money to comence treatment on him
Or else he will die

A scammer’s profile text · 2016

Assistant Manager at Chevron oil and Gas company USA; Lives in Houston, Texas; Separated

Messages from a scammer · 2016

baby there is wrist watch and necklace i bought for you today baby, ïf i wanna send it baby hw can i send it to u, which is for ur daughter birthday

A scammer’s profile text · 2016

Intro
Works at U.S. Army
Studied at United States Military Academy
Went to Southeast High School (Oklahoma City)
Lives in Kabul, Afghanistan
From Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Messages from a scammer · 2016

payment information, sent in email, by captain Just. Hagopian:
Receiver name: MAKELA BURNS
Location adress: Atlanta Georgia zonal office USA

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.