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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.

A scammer’s profile text · 2023

Once, quite by accident, on vacation I decided to try spearfishing with my girlfriend and it was so great, now when I go to the sea I do this kind of hunting. To keep my body in shape, I do yoga, and for my self-development, I study psychology, it started from little things like useful tricks for my mind, for example, how to force myself to do really necessary things at a time when I don’t feel like doing it at all) I really not a bad hostess, I can cook delicious food.

Messages from a scammer · 2023

she does what she needs and manipulate you into stay and use credits on coinsites. she is in the afilliate program and are on alot of sites. she sells her contact info but as all they others same day after writng short message goes back to date site. online up to 12 hours a day.

A scammer’s profile text · 2023

He must be physically strong)). He must also be older than me, at least 50 years old, the older the better, BUT !!! not older than 70 experienced and wise to learn from him. He must have a tough character and a good sense of humor. a gentleman with good manners, an intellectual with a high IQ level It is important that he does not forget that the woman who is nearby is waiting for compliments. I want to feel that he loves me. Necessarily kind and caring!) Haha !!! Are there such? NO??? And I am looking and I will find !! He must be a person who is respected in society. We must have common interests and topics of conversation. You should be comfortable with him. I don’t want to change a person and I don’t want him to change me. Growing and developing together is the main thing. I WANT TO BE NEXT TO him-QUEEN! I WAIT FOR YOU - my KING!

Messages from a scammer · 2023

In a affiliate program that pays commission for sale on site. she will do anything to keep you using credits including planing date to marry. She can fool anyone with her genuinly nice character.

Scam email · 2023

Hello babe, if you want to meet me google chat me My personal profile, Click here-(---LINK REDACTED---

Scam email · 2023

but you try to fillfil me i need more airtimeand i have to eat

Messages from a scammer · 2023

mój Boże więc jak myślisz w czym poproszę Cię o pomoc? Musisz wiedzieć, że te 800 euro, o które cię prosiłem, nie zbudują mi życia, tylko dlatego, że mam kłopoty, proszę cię o pomoc 17:52

A scammer’s profile text · 2023

Young and beautiful Lithuanian woman, mid 30's, owns very successful hospitality business in Bangkok, Thailand, no children, never married, seeking successful middle aged man who is financially stable, wealthy, loves family, knows how to take care of a woman, and I prefer men from Israel, Morocco, South Africa, and Europe. Lets meet for a coffee!

Scam email · 2023

Baby I hope you gone step the store tomorrow so you can get me the gift cards so that I buy the cloths online then, I think would be great..How about this honey, why don’t you step by the store tomorrow and get me some gift cards so I could buy them online rightOr anytime??Really honey so you have cash-app or something so I start the shopping tomorrow ??

Scam email · 2023

dear please buy me 50 dollars amazon card so that i will pay my dogs hospital bill please

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.