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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.

Scam email · 2024

Jeremy, if you were standing by a highway and you knew that the bridge was out up ahead, would you try to get people's attention and warn them? I tell people the good news of Jesus Christ because there is danger ahead for all people unless they recognize they need a savior. You may not believe in the Bible or in God. I challenge you to read the New Testament and find out for yourself if Jesus is who he claims to be: the son of God, the savior sent to save people from the judgment to come, who took the punishment for our sins on himself on the cross. Someday each person will have to stand before the holy living one true God and give an account for the way they lived their life. Those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their lord and savior already have forgiveness and will spend eternity with God in a beautiful place where there is no more death, sin, and sorrow. Those who have rejected Je…
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Jeremy, if you were standing by a highway and you knew that the bridge was out up ahead, would you try to get people's attention and warn them? I tell people the good news of Jesus Christ because there is danger ahead for all people unless they recognize they need a savior. You may not believe in the Bible or in God. I challenge you to read the New Testament and find out for yourself if Jesus is who he claims to be: the son of God, the savior sent to save people from the judgment to come, who took the punishment for our sins on himself on the cross. Someday each person will have to stand before the holy living one true God and give an account for the way they lived their life. Those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their lord and savior already have forgiveness and will spend eternity with God in a beautiful place where there is no more death, sin, and sorrow. Those who have rejected Jesus Christ and what he did for them on the cross will have to pay for their own sins. And the penalty is eternal separation from God in a terrible place of torment where there is no light and no love. John 3:16 Says for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Scam email · 2024

Profit shaping. Fettan is followed in a colorful series by sours, bitter, salt, sulfur and steel waters. ---LINK REDACTED---

Messages from a scammer · 2024

Employee Name :- (As Senior Employee) Shri B. Jaya Prakash A/L V. Biman (🆔 Number: MM1759JP)

Office Contact Number/Mobile Number:- ---REDACTED---

Official Email Id :- ---REDACTED---



YouTube link 🆔.

---LINK REDACTED---



Facebook 🆔.

---LINK REDACTED---

A scammer’s profile text · 2024

MR. CHUI LIANG SMITH former South Korean politician [1] who is the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (EMPLOYER 🆔 ENI144321) Employer/Owner of the ENI OIL AND GAS DRILLING COMPANY. Company and Full Residence Of- 13th FLOOR, ALDGATE TOWER, ---ADDRESS REDACTED---, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, E18FA, *E-mail 🆔 (---REDACTED---)* *(WhatsApp Number. ---REDACTED---) ( ---REDACTED---) (---REDACTED---)

Scam email · 2024

Speculative? I had no choice but to follow his example and, tired as I was, I slept quite bearably wrapped up in my overcoat.

Scam email · 2024

Concentrated. Quandt had now also come up and he was measuring the mysterious notebook with a doubtful look.---LINK REDACTED---

A scammer’s profile text · 2024

Works at U.S. Army
Lives in Los Angeles, La Salle County, Texas
From Los Angeles, California
Divorced

A scammer’s profile text · 2024

Works at Works at Four star General u.s. military peacekeeping mission in Syria
Studied at U.S. Naval War College
From Meadville, Pennsylvania
Widowed

Messages from a scammer · 2024

Can you get a apple gift card for my Internet connection is very low right now..?
John Evans
I really need it to restore my Internet connection back
John Evans
John Evans
Can you be able to get it.?
You sent
won't the army pay for it?
Wed 7:18 PM
John Evans
I'm in the Syria working now
John Evans
And I do not have any access to contact the UN OK
John Evans
$200 so I can contact the UN OK
John Evans
John Evans
I promise to pay back OK

Messages from a scammer · 2024

Let's hit the bar tonight and make it an unforgettable evening!

Right away, buddy! I'm counting on you!

Aviana Noble

AnyScam Scam Database Removal Request

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