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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Flawed oversight has left a critical health program vulnerable to scammers while taxpayers foot the bill.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2026
The kinds of loans, called Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC), that are being targeted by the scammers are a line of credit that a bank or other financial institution will extend to a homeowner using their home as collateral.
—Kevin Collier, NBC news, 14 Feb. 2026
The phone number in the text connects directly to scammers posing as Robinhood security.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Feb. 2026
Among the biggest threats, Miller said, are scammers — criminals trying to trick you out of your money.
—Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
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Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2026
The kinds of loans, called Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC), that are being targeted by the scammers are a line of credit that a bank or other financial institution will extend to a homeowner using their home as collateral.
—Kevin Collier, NBC news, 14 Feb. 2026
The phone number in the text connects directly to scammers posing as Robinhood security.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Feb. 2026
Among the biggest threats, Miller said, are scammers — criminals trying to trick you out of your money.
—Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for scammer
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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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