plural scammers
: one who perpetrates a scam : a person who commits or participates in a fraudulent scheme or operation
insurance/credit card scammers
The company will not call you to ask for your Social Security or account number, but nefarious scammers might.—
Ellen Marks
Ellen MarksNow that most people are alert to suspicious e-mails and phony phone calls, text messages are the new frontier for scammers out to con you.—Consumer Reports
Consumer ReportsExamples of scammer in a Sentence
Internet scammers who never seem to run out of swindles
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The less information about you that's publicly available, the fewer raw materials scammers have to work with.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2025
The woman admitted her actions were fueled in part by guilt for having been duped by the scammer in the first place.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
Well, the same features that make USDT on Tron appealing to legitimate users have attracted terrorists, drug dealers, money launderers and scammers.
—Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Elderly people may struggle to navigate the online world, while internet scammers actively target older victims with romance frauds or fake tax rebate advertisements.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
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Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2025
The woman admitted her actions were fueled in part by guilt for having been duped by the scammer in the first place.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
Well, the same features that make USDT on Tron appealing to legitimate users have attracted terrorists, drug dealers, money launderers and scammers.
—Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Elderly people may struggle to navigate the online world, while internet scammers actively target older victims with romance frauds or fake tax rebate advertisements.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
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“Scammer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scammer. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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