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
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Examples of scammer in a Sentence
Internet scammers who never seem to run out of swindles
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Newman said one of three things will happen to those who pay: the scammer will disappear, the scammer will take the money and send the photos anyway, or the scammer will come back and demand more cash.
—Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 2 July 2024
The scammer collected deposits and then sent renters to the car owners’ real addresses.
—Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
The scammer's end goal is to obtain your personal information by encouraging you to submit an application.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 26 June 2024
Hackers have hit Neiman Marcus and accessed the data of 64,000 customers, according to the luxury department store, though the scammers claim to have a much larger trove of data.
—Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 25 June 2024
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Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 2 July 2024
The scammer collected deposits and then sent renters to the car owners’ real addresses.
—Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
The scammer's end goal is to obtain your personal information by encouraging you to submit an application.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 26 June 2024
Hackers have hit Neiman Marcus and accessed the data of 64,000 customers, according to the luxury department store, though the scammers claim to have a much larger trove of data.
—Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 25 June 2024
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“Scammer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scammer. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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