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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Instead of one scammer typing out sloppy messages from a laptop, this setup worked more like a criminal software business.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026
According to Duckett, the retiree had been targeted by a scammer—but the company’s AI system was first to notice something was off.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 17 June 2026
Some Brazilians and a few Moroccans had shown up, having bought fraudulent passes from scammers.
—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 16 June 2026
Linda Hyler, one of several older adults who attended, said she was concerned with so many scammers out there.
—Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026
According to Duckett, the retiree had been targeted by a scammer—but the company’s AI system was first to notice something was off.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 17 June 2026
Some Brazilians and a few Moroccans had shown up, having bought fraudulent passes from scammers.
—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 16 June 2026
Linda Hyler, one of several older adults who attended, said she was concerned with so many scammers out there.
—Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
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“Scammer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scammer. Accessed 18 Jun. 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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