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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Their home was spray-painted with a threatening message and their phone numbers were leaked to scammers after the release of the information, the lawsuit said.
—Idaho Statesman, 27 Dec. 2025
Squibb plays Thelma Post, a grandmother who gets duped by a phone scammer, discovers her mistake, and makes a perilous journey through the streets of Los Angeles to track down the culprit.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Dec. 2025
Gift cards are frequently tampered with by scammers.
—Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 25 Dec. 2025
With online shopping a daily habit for many, scammers are banking on you clicking without thinking.
—Marin Independent Journal, Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2025
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Idaho Statesman, 27 Dec. 2025
Squibb plays Thelma Post, a grandmother who gets duped by a phone scammer, discovers her mistake, and makes a perilous journey through the streets of Los Angeles to track down the culprit.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Dec. 2025
Gift cards are frequently tampered with by scammers.
—Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 25 Dec. 2025
With online shopping a daily habit for many, scammers are banking on you clicking without thinking.
—Marin Independent Journal, Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2025
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“Scammer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scammer. Accessed 31 Dec. 2025.
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scammer
noun
scam·mer
ˈskam-ər 
: someone who perpetuates a scam : a person who commits or participates in a fraudulent scheme or operation
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