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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 · 2023

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Scam email · 2023

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Scam email · 2023

Schlußsatz erhalten; z. Note the rhetorical figure of „personification“ consisting in representing inanimate objects as endowed with life and action, an idiom not infrequently employed, mainly as a substitute for the passive voice which is less used in German than in English-- was put or packed .
Er erwiderte freundlich und geleitete mich in sein Arbeitszimmer, welches sehr einfach eingerichtet war. Er blieb vor dem Landpfleger stehen.---LINK REDACTED---

Scam email · 2023

Carousel 1709, octagon.
Landore, with its former Siemens steelworks, is close by.
Bah, that's gone too far again, said Kellmann, gone way too far. One said to himself: This is the end.

Messages from a scammer · 2023

not bad. A total of 10 items were auctioned in the past two or three days. Profits were received for 8 products. Probably more than 6,000 US dollars. Two more will have to wait until the end of the auction period to receive profits.

NFT has been very popular recently, so I also know a little bit about it. I also just started learning about this bidding project.

Yes, everyone is good at different things, but this is the current trend in society. You must always try to understand it. After all, I think the future trends are basically in the metaverse, which is why so many famous figures in the capital world are doing this.

But I don’t need to hold NFT, because the method I use now is just bidding. All the funds are in my own wallet, and there will be no loss of principal. How will I lose it?

But in my opinion, just because the market is too big, there will definitely be some ill-intent…
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not bad. A total of 10 items were auctioned in the past two or three days. Profits were received for 8 products. Probably more than 6,000 US dollars. Two more will have to wait until the end of the auction period to receive profits.

NFT has been very popular recently, so I also know a little bit about it. I also just started learning about this bidding project.

Yes, everyone is good at different things, but this is the current trend in society. You must always try to understand it. After all, I think the future trends are basically in the metaverse, which is why so many famous figures in the capital world are doing this.

But I don’t need to hold NFT, because the method I use now is just bidding. All the funds are in my own wallet, and there will be no loss of principal. How will I lose it?

But in my opinion, just because the market is too big, there will definitely be some ill-intentioned people who will use fraudulent methods to obtain some profits, just like it is the same in our real life, in any industry, as long as the market is enough big. There will always be some scammers.

This does not mean that the market is unstable, it only means that before we do these things, the most important thing is to ensure the safety of funds so that there will be no losses.

I'm just telling you what I did. Not for you to do what I did. Why do you think this way?

I have only been in contact for 4 days, and if the current profit is counted as the profit arriving tonight, I should have a profit of ---REDACTED--- US dollars.

Different products will be updated every day. At about noon, there will be a 6-hour display period. At the end of the display period, the auction period will begin. You can get your profit after waiting for the auction to end.

Like I said, I'm going to be honest with you, so I'm going to tell you what I'm doing. This is a sharing of life, I don’t know what you understand.

Scam email · 2023

Rabener, Gottlieb Wilh.
After all, you can do whatever you want with me, he added, but it won't happen that I should go there voluntarily. You, the big steel hammer, don't dare to talk to your girl? You can see from the drawing that picture u.---LINK REDACTED---

A scammer’s profile text · 2023

Intro

Store keeper at Mayflower Textile Wholesaling

Went to St Augustine Catholic High School

Lives in Baltimore, Maryland

Joined September 2020

Scam email · 2023

So what time are you getting there card

Can you try and go to the store and get me 25 dollar Amazon card so that I can show you the videos my love

---VICTIM REDACTED--- what time are you getting there card

Can you try and go to the store and get me 25 dollar Amazon card so that I can show you the videos my love

I want you to go to the store so that I can show you the my breast in the videos my love

---VICTIM REDACTED--- you help me with that

I have two videos but I don't have airtime to send you the video

Scam email · 2023

Code of Civil Procedure, § 56 ff. We are inclined to romanticize and place the fate of ancient times and peoples, such as the Greeks, higher than ours. On March 1, Finance Minister Schminke sent a letter to du Thil in the key that was only possible in Kassel or Köthen: S. It will be the father, thought Frida and opened the door.---LINK REDACTED---

Scam email · 2023

Please can you get me a Amazon card gift now300$Baby if you get it snp it and send it to meAm using my sis phone now

AnyScam Scam Database Removal Request

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