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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.

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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 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

Hinge removed his profile so I wasn’t able to grab a screenshot before we moved our conversation to WhatsApp. I only remember something along the lines of him having this quote, “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.”

Messages from a scammer · 2023

He usually works remotely at home and lives in Renton, WA and sometimes travels to Los Angeles, CA for work (import/export goods & winery). He has a residence in Manhattan Beach, LA. I have some photos and videos of his warehouse workplace that he runs in LA.
He left for LA from SEATAC on February 6, 2023 landed around 4-5pm at LAX (I think). He’s expected to be back in Seattle, WA the week of 3/12 as his retired engineering parents are coming to visit him (possibly at the end of March 2023). They’re traveling from Australia but both reside in Singapore. He sent me photos of his parents, and he has no other siblings.
He told me he learned Crypto trading from his uncle--I suspect these two (or three) are setting up a trading company to scam more people and using the funds for their importing/exporting winery/chinese goods business in Los Angeles, California. I also think his uncle (ei…
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He usually works remotely at home and lives in Renton, WA and sometimes travels to Los Angeles, CA for work (import/export goods & winery). He has a residence in Manhattan Beach, LA. I have some photos and videos of his warehouse workplace that he runs in LA.
He left for LA from SEATAC on February 6, 2023 landed around 4-5pm at LAX (I think). He’s expected to be back in Seattle, WA the week of 3/12 as his retired engineering parents are coming to visit him (possibly at the end of March 2023). They’re traveling from Australia but both reside in Singapore. He sent me photos of his parents, and he has no other siblings.
He told me he learned Crypto trading from his uncle--I suspect these two (or three) are setting up a trading company to scam more people and using the funds for their importing/exporting winery/chinese goods business in Los Angeles, California. I also think his uncle (either from Seattle or LA) sponsored his Green Card about 5 years ago.
He was born in 1987 (or 1986) in South Korea, but moved to Singapore when he was 4 years old. He speaks both English and Mandarin fluently.
He moved to the United States about 5 years ago. He first lived in NYC for about 2 years, and then moved to LA for about 2 years. Last year (or 2 years ago), he bought a house in Seattle but rented it out. The tenants moved to the east coast so he decided to move to Seattle last year and live in the house he bought.
He has 3 cars: Mercedes G63, a Land Rover (Defender?), and an Audi R8 (or BMW i8). I believe the Mercedes G63 is in LA as he had a break-in 2022 in a parking lot. He filed a police report of the incident but there was no resolution as of date. He also filed a police report and an insurance claim; he was compensated for the car damages. He sent me photos of the damages to his car. I reached out to LAPD to see if they can pull up his police report for the car break-in and to identify him.
His uncle in Seattle gifted him a shiba-inu dog late last year, who he named “Potato”

Scam email · 2023

Mikkel Seeker: ---REDACTED---
Henry: ---REDACTED---
Donald: ---REDACTED---
They used these fake banking websites to cheat me and scam my money
---LINK REDACTED---
---LINK REDACTED---

Scam email · 2023

Evang Paulinus Paul
Scam contents unexpectedly..

Your seed can be money, car, house or even motorbike... You offer it to God in other for him to intercede on the specific issue you are going through.

God can't eat your money, or leave under the roof of the house or drive car or motorcycle but he is only looking at the state and conditions of your heart I giving out something you had in order for him to answer your prayers.

If you check your bible. So many people offer to God and God bless and answer their prayers such as , Abraham, Jacob, David, Solomon, Hezekiah etc

They offer Gift to a man of God who stands and represent God ..while the man of God pray and God will answer because of the gift or seed

A scammer’s profile text · 2023

He doesn't have one. He found me on DATEMYAGE.I spoke with him once and he

Scam email · 2023

I need a small iTunes cardPlease$100https://dundle.com/steam/100-usd-us/

A scammer’s profile text · 2023

That’s nice I’m from
ORLANDO FL but i was born
and raised in palermo Italy
can I know more about you if you don’t mind

Scam email · 2023

My name is Mrs. Mavis Wanczyk from the USA, I am donating $4,800,000.00 Dollars to you because your email is among the lucky winners for my Powerball jackpot Lottery winner worth $768 Million Dollars, contact me for your claim my email are (---REDACTED---) FOR MORE INFORMATION.
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Scam email · 2023

Started innocently enough with an email from a lady wanting to give out an inheritance and I was to contact a Mr. Jeromen Powell. Slowly but surely a fee or payment was required . He was extremely convincing. Its like I was hypnotied and I willingly kept giving him money with promises of receiving this ineritance, It never came and I eventually paid this man $11,000. Finally he disappeared without paying out anything, Of course I demended my money back to which all my emails were ignored. I feel pretty dumb for faling for such a scam, I thought i was pretty intelligent. Not intelligent enough. He still received my demanding email, but were never answered. I paid through CashAjpp, Money never to be recovered.

A scammer’s profile text · 2023

"Do what's right" POF headline. Used Laramie, WY and Phillidelphia as locations

AnyScam Scam Database Removal Request

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