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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

You don't have a wife
I want to meet with you face to face....??
Sent from my iPhone.



Please, Call, Chat and answer me?

Scam email · 2024

Ghostworm157, how are you today?
I will be in my video chat today, join me in 50 minutes,
I'll show you something.....:)
Here is my private chat page: private videochat

What's your nickname there?

Scam email · 2024

Ghostworm157! I'm online in my chat: Emma95 chat!
Join me there, I'll send you my pix!

Scam email · 2024

Should I Send You NudesMy name is TERESITA ROUTHE SEE MY NUDE PIC

Scam email · 2024

Ghostworm157, did you get my last msg?
I'm so excited right now and want a hot date with a sexy stud ;)
You can contact me private chat if you wanna hookup soon.

Scam email · 2024

I uploaded several nude pics for you!
It's in my profile here: Emma95 private photos

Please sign up there and find my gallery - Emma95

Scam email · 2024

Ohh, Ghostworm157, please do not write me here, my husband can read them!
I'm using this site for private talk!
Please sign up sign up details
and find my profile Emma95, we'll be able to talk there!


Kisses,
Emma!

Scam email · 2024

I'm going out tomorrow!
I'm using mobile chat apps here: secure chat

Just sign up and find my profile, my nick name is Emma95!

Scam email · 2024

Spreadsheet shared with you: "Julieta"Fuller Sandra shared a spreadsheet
Header profile photo
---VICTIM REDACTED--- ) has invited you to edit the following spreadsheet:
Julieta
OpenFuller Sandra (via Google Sheets) • ---REDACTED---

Scam email · 2024

Ghostworm157, hey:)
I made 6 new really interesting pics for you, please check them in my profile gallery,
here: Emma_gallery

You'll need to create profile on this website, but it's secure and free!


Your Emma

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.