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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

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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.

Messages from a scammer · 2025

You light up my day baby with just a smile baby 🥰🥰🥰. I keep thinking about you sweetheart 😘😘.

Woke up until 1:30 am. What I saw, filled me with immense joy:

A scammer’s profile text · 2025

Young female from Ghana without kid looking for marriage with a mature man from Europe, United-States, etc...

Messages from a scammer · 2025

You’re my joy and I really choose to love you please my love 😍 How much did I rip youFuck off how much did I rip from you that make you repot me are you crazy why do you keep repotting me what the fuck is going on with youAnd I didn’t meant to collect money from youI was smart enough to rip you

A scammer’s profile text · 2024

Celine klarer
📍 Barcelona ( 🇨🇭/ 🇨🇳 mix)
Growing brains, gains, and my banks 📈
Investment coach and entrepreneur #GirlBoss #EmpoweredWomen #ChangeMaker"
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Scam email · 2024

Attn: ---VICTIM REDACTED---

Congratulations!! Your payment has been approved and endorsed, with
the instruction and approvals are given from the Authorities Due to
the incessant scam activities going around the globe, the Authorities
has instructed our Financial Institution to use high Performance in
Banking System to set up a Personal Online Banking Account.

The sum of US$15,500,000.00 was deposited in our bank, The Management
has resolved to open a Personal On-line Banking Account for you with
our bank and then give you the on-line access which will enable you to
check and make electronic wire transfer out to any part of the world
of your choice.

Kindly send the below information to enable us to set the account open for you.

Full Name:..................
Full Address:.........................
Direct Cellphone Number:..........
PASSPORT AND ID CARDS:.................
YOUR OCCUPATION.…
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Attn: ---VICTIM REDACTED---

Congratulations!! Your payment has been approved and endorsed, with
the instruction and approvals are given from the Authorities Due to
the incessant scam activities going around the globe, the Authorities
has instructed our Financial Institution to use high Performance in
Banking System to set up a Personal Online Banking Account.

The sum of US$15,500,000.00 was deposited in our bank, The Management
has resolved to open a Personal On-line Banking Account for you with
our bank and then give you the on-line access which will enable you to
check and make electronic wire transfer out to any part of the world
of your choice.

Kindly send the below information to enable us to set the account open for you.

Full Name:..................
Full Address:.........................
Direct Cellphone Number:..........
PASSPORT AND ID CARDS:.................
YOUR OCCUPATION.........
POSITION.........
DATE OF BIRTH..............

Looking forward to your next letter

Regards

Thanks for banking with us,

Mr. James Campell.
A/C On-Line Payment Officer,
Heritage Bank
Atlanta GA, USA
Email: ---REDACTED---

Messages from a scammer · 2024

love you ---VICTIM REDACTED--- much love and be good
Christian
bye for now and be good
Christian
Christian Roman
i love you queen so much that you matter to my soul princess bye for now and be good
7:18 PM
Christian
Christian Roman
have you opened the credit uniom

A scammer’s profile text · 2024

It isn't available now. I got that message when I tried to open his account! I guess someone else already blocked him on Facebook and reported him!

Messages from a scammer · 2024

E-mail -
Good morning my dearest friend how was was your night I hope you slept well last nigh. It's my pleasure when you wake up l miss you so much..


William b ---VICTIM REDACTED---
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You
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I miss you more than you know. I can't wait to hear from you soon 🤔😍

Messages from a scammer · 2024

He claimed to be from Denmark but, moved to Virginia and then Florida, USA a few years ago.

Messages from a scammer · 2024

My real name is James McDonald and I have no idea who this Paul is, prolly someone stealing my pictures and claiming to be me, I’ve heard rumors of my pictures being seen on different profiles online but I’ve never believed any of it, well I guess you’ve shown it all to me and I now believe my pictures are now being use to impersonate me out there 😪 this is absurd

Funny thing is that I’ve grown to like you so much and I’ve grown so fund of you, but if this is how you want the friendship to end then I’ll respect that and I’ll be out of your way, and trust me you’ll never hear from me again, but there’s one thing you should is that I’ve never used an Ai or whatsoever on you and I will never do that to you, I’ll rather come clean to ask you for help than to lie to you, just so you know…. Believe it or not

Let me ask you a question…. If all of Sudden I sent you a link just like you did, an…
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My real name is James McDonald and I have no idea who this Paul is, prolly someone stealing my pictures and claiming to be me, I’ve heard rumors of my pictures being seen on different profiles online but I’ve never believed any of it, well I guess you’ve shown it all to me and I now believe my pictures are now being use to impersonate me out there 😪 this is absurd

Funny thing is that I’ve grown to like you so much and I’ve grown so fund of you, but if this is how you want the friendship to end then I’ll respect that and I’ll be out of your way, and trust me you’ll never hear from me again, but there’s one thing you should is that I’ve never used an Ai or whatsoever on you and I will never do that to you, I’ll rather come clean to ask you for help than to lie to you, just so you know…. Believe it or not

Let me ask you a question…. If all of Sudden I sent you a link just like you did, and the link takes you to another profile with another name but with all your pictures and video’s in it and I started calling you fake all of a sudden and you know within yourself that you’re not fake yet you keep trying to make me understand that you’re not fake but instead I keep calling you fake because I’m blinded by fear and insecurities and it’s preventing me from seeing that you’re actually telling the truth… pls tel me how would you feel

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.