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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.

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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 · 2024

The guy has apparently claimed he’s falling in love work me and he wants to harm himself when he can’t chat with me.
He speaks of India, restaurants, his hotel and how much how he loves me and if I’ll travel to see him

Messages from a scammer · 2024

He claims he’s form India
He’s looking for a wife
He’s claims he’s in love with me
He constantly shared nothing but information about India, hotel and food.
He is a odd man

Scam email · 2024

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Scam email · 2024

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Scam email · 2024

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Can i send you video call i can show of my body.......???

Scam email · 2024

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Scam email · 2024

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Scam email · 2024

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Scam email · 2024

Good morning Jeremy,

I was saddened when I read your email… there is a heaven, and there is a hell, and surely, as I live, there is a devil, and his name is Satan… it is Satan, who has blinded you to the truth. But I pray that your eyes shall be opened, and you will know the truth. For the Bible tells us that we shall know the truth, and the truth shall set us free. John 8:32…
Hebrews 9:27… and just as it is appointed for man, to die once, and after that comes judgment. John 3:16… for God, so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

Revelation.20:15… and if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire…
I have one last word for you Jeremy from the Lord… Revelation 2:11… he who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit says to the churches. (To you) The one who conquer…
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Good morning Jeremy,

I was saddened when I read your email… there is a heaven, and there is a hell, and surely, as I live, there is a devil, and his name is Satan… it is Satan, who has blinded you to the truth. But I pray that your eyes shall be opened, and you will know the truth. For the Bible tells us that we shall know the truth, and the truth shall set us free. John 8:32…
Hebrews 9:27… and just as it is appointed for man, to die once, and after that comes judgment. John 3:16… for God, so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

Revelation.20:15… and if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire…
I have one last word for you Jeremy from the Lord… Revelation 2:11… he who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit says to the churches. (To you) The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.

I cannot force you to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and neither will he force you, for it is something that we have to do on her own. We are the ones who have to make that decision, and who we believe in and who we follow. And who we choose to believe in Will determine where we will be when we leave this world…

I started not to respond to this, but as a minister of the word of God, I have to and I pray that the Lord will open your eyes.

A scammer’s profile text · 2024

Claims to be in the Navy, says he's from San Diego, CA but deployed in Ukraine

AnyScam Scam Database Removal Request

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