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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

! Look at my new photos:
> ---LINK REDACTED---
>
---LINK REDACTED--- is Emma!
My boyfriend went to another town,
let's meet!

Scam email · 2024

How are you! Look at my new photos: ---LINK REDACTED---

Skype message · 2024

Do you need me asa SeX let's Meet & Fuck (t.ly/S-ChatProfile) (via Google Meet)

A scammer’s profile text · 2024

Intro

Works at DoorDash
Went to North Presentation Primary School, Cork, Ireland
Lives in Moncton, New Brunswick
From Dublin, Ireland
Single
Joined May 2016

Scam email · 2024

BGT

Are you married..........?......................................?????????????

Scam email · 2024

Hello DRAGON, gotta busy with someother issue ? I am still waiting to hear from you back babe.
Trust me i 'm really interested to meet you. I just wanted to say u that, it's nothing but just like a free chat option by using your email. But if you can't do this little 4me then how could i trust you babe, don't keep me waiting DRAGON,
Talk to me through Safe Chat Now
I will wait for your response

Scam email · 2024

l'm trying to find someone who is really interested about a meeting DRAGON r u ready..?. I can send you my real pic now if you wish a clean one of course. STRIKER Any plan for meet up or interested for video call...????

Scam email · 2024

I'm from your city.
I'm renting a hotel room.Come Pick MeeT Up Now??
I'm looking for an ol

Scam email · 2024

Can't u remember me? :O :O .... Well, I'm not sure that, who replied first? May be I replied to your post, or u replied mine... Whatever, the question is... u still keen or not? Well, here is my pic for you and I'd love to share more ;) I am free for this week only, that's Y I’m looking for some serious guy. Are really serious and interested? I'd like to chat a little before we meet up.
I preferDISCREET CHAT COMMUNITY for a better and safer contact. It's 100% safe and absolutely free you know :) :)
LittleBrd32 is my screen name

On Tues, Feb 27, 2024 at 9:51 ---VICTIM REDACTED--- wrote:
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024, 9:50 ---VICTIM REDACTED--- wrote:

On Tues, Feb 27, 2024 at 9:50 ---VICTIM REDACTED--- wrote:
Hey DRAGON, here is my pic for you and I'd love to share more ;) I am free for this week only, that's Y I’m looking for some serious guy. Are really serious and interested? I'd like to ch…
Read the whole message
Can't u remember me? :O :O .... Well, I'm not sure that, who replied first? May be I replied to your post, or u replied mine... Whatever, the question is... u still keen or not? Well, here is my pic for you and I'd love to share more ;) I am free for this week only, that's Y I’m looking for some serious guy. Are really serious and interested? I'd like to chat a little before we meet up.
I preferDISCREET CHAT COMMUNITY for a better and safer contact. It's 100% safe and absolutely free you know :) :)
LittleBrd32 is my screen name

On Tues, Feb 27, 2024 at 9:51 ---VICTIM REDACTED--- wrote:
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024, 9:50 ---VICTIM REDACTED--- wrote:

On Tues, Feb 27, 2024 at 9:50 ---VICTIM REDACTED--- wrote:
Hey DRAGON, here is my pic for you and I'd love to share more ;) I am free for this week only, that's Y I’m looking for some serious guy. Are really serious and interested? I'd like to chat a little before we meet up.
I prefer DISCREET CHAT COMMUNITY for a better and safer contact. It's 100% safe and absolutely free you know :) :)
LittleBrd32 is my screen name

Scam email · 2024

Melissa Gilman, 29

Online

I'm looking for
a man from 26 to 65

---LINK REDACTED---

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.