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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

These two were obstructing the Police.

---LINK REDACTED---

Scam email · 2024

W..hat I’m ... going to.. do_ to you to_night. J..oin n_ow What_sApp. ---REDACTED---_7..6..4.3

Scam email · 2024

it seems you are a nigga, i dont really like niggas all that much, whis, get the nigga killer

Scam email · 2024

He found Ileisa more beautiful today than ever.

---LINK REDACTED---

Scam email · 2024

hey&^%$&$$%&%$&%$&%$

I am a Beautiful Midget girl I just need some fun.

no need money..if you're interested,,,

Scam email · 2024

????Can we MEET on face TO Face........?????











Red
Vehicle
2002 Alfa Romeo Sportwagon
GUID
dbed5ddf-045d-4ce6-bd---REDACTED---ec7946

Scam email · 2024

❤𝚂𝚎𝚡𝚢 𝚂𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎❤I'm 35 white 5'7" weigh 120 and I'm clean you be to.

Scam email · 2024

Text Me ?--
I want to meet with you face to face....??

Sent from my iPhone.

Please, Call or Chat with me:-->> Open Me

Scam email · 2024

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Send me your number and I'll call you

Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy

Birthday
---REDACTED---

Favorite color
Purple

Scam email · 2024

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Hi Send me your number and I'll call you

Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy

Birthday
---REDACTED---

Favorite color
Purple

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.