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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

What are you reporting?

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

My husband is away from home for a month. I'm a local resident. SEE 15+ NUDE PHOTO

Scam email · 2024

Fifteen minutes later the dog was dead.---LINK REDACTED---

Scam email · 2024

Photo--
Join Here Get- My Private Profile
I'm free for next 2 days


From iPhone

Scam email · 2024

But -- one woman, pregnant, alone, out there.

---LINK REDACTED---

Scam email · 2024

Don't want to put the accent on the City, do we?

---LINK REDACTED---

Scam email · 2024

Stranger 13.01
I will pretend to not know shes Natasha nice, but yh keep going
Stranger
Stranger 13.01
😂

Scam email · 2024

Let's Meet & Chat Free- [ GrandMeet/FreeProfile ]
Red
Vehicle
1996 Rover 220
GUID
b075f13e-8ed3-46ab-ae7d-ab82d962ae7c

Scam email · 2024

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Hi. You Real?
I'm looking for something real for Open minded people.
Older master?

Sent from my Metro PCS 4G LTE Android device



Birthday
---REDACTED---
Age
36 years old

Scam email · 2024

If they stayed, that would be the endhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1jPJgfWlzDSjDHKiaWUz4muPftMAG9v4W/view?usp=drivesdk

Scam email · 2024

What ever just stop emailing me and I won't bother you why are you even on here anyway I don't know you

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.