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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Internet scammers who never seem to run out of swindles
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This step matters because scammers often use exposed personal details to sound more believable.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026
McDonald said that the scammers siphoned money from private healthcare benefit programs, which paid out millions of dollars as a result of the fraudulent submissions.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 19 May 2026
While scammers may often target older adults, advocates say more often than not, perpetrators of elder abuse can be someone victims know, including family members and caregivers.
—Jennifer Bisram, CBS News, 18 May 2026
For Riley, this was a jolt of illumination about the way the world viewed him—not as a child but as a suspect, a scammer in the making.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026
McDonald said that the scammers siphoned money from private healthcare benefit programs, which paid out millions of dollars as a result of the fraudulent submissions.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 19 May 2026
While scammers may often target older adults, advocates say more often than not, perpetrators of elder abuse can be someone victims know, including family members and caregivers.
—Jennifer Bisram, CBS News, 18 May 2026
For Riley, this was a jolt of illumination about the way the world viewed him—not as a child but as a suspect, a scammer in the making.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
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“Scammer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scammer. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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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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