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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.

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.

Scam email · 2023

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Scam email · 2023

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Scam email · 2023

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Scam email · 2023

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Scam email · 2023

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Scam email · 2023

despaletillemos gofrare, Ténia Dzsudzsá---REDACTED--- inculcares rapidos mechoneariamos televisual, mordicad gallofara apologizaran exportaste buzamientos airariais viltrotearan.


---LINK REDACTED---

Scam email · 2023

animizase renovasemos, ---REDACTED--- epizoarios fisurarais paticojos extralimitaren actualizabais porfirizarias depurais.---LINK REDACTED---

Scam email · 2023

they replaced Alston ---REDACTED--- ugly swarthy ovals, visited Arabic cacophonies redeemed coots transliterated. ---LINK REDACTED---

A scammer’s profile text · 2023

My real name is Anna. I live in Kazakhstan in the village of Korosteli. I know German language well because I studied it at school and later at university. I am 34 years old. I am alone and have no children. I had a relationship with a man in my city, but he cheated and deceived me.etc

Messages from a scammer · 2023

We chatted for a couple of weeks and Anna Oparima wanted to visit me by plane in Germany. I paid the airfare to the travel agency "Dream Travel".
Dream Travel Travel Reisebüro, 138 Zhamakaeva Straße, Semey. Tel: ---REDACTED---.
Kontakt: ---REDACTED---
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Account holder names: Mogilnikova Svetlana
IBAN of the travel agency: KZ---REDACTED---
Bank name: Bank Centerkredit
SWIFT (BIC): KCJBKZKX
Central bank address: Kazahstan, Almaty, Karasai-Batyr- Straße 30.
1245 Euro transferred on ---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.