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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Panouses regularly fields inquiries from investors, scammers and people in need, all trying to reach his clients.
—Safiyah Riddle, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
The link, which also actually goes to PayPal, adds the scammer as a second authorized user of your PayPal account.
—Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
Certificates are a core part of Transport Layer Security, a protocol that uses a cryptographic key pair to prove that a site appearing in a browser window is, in fact, the authentic one operated by the true owner of the domain, not a scammer running a lookalike site.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
Many victims share their experiences with scammers online.
—Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
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Safiyah Riddle, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
The link, which also actually goes to PayPal, adds the scammer as a second authorized user of your PayPal account.
—Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
Certificates are a core part of Transport Layer Security, a protocol that uses a cryptographic key pair to prove that a site appearing in a browser window is, in fact, the authentic one operated by the true owner of the domain, not a scammer running a lookalike site.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
Many victims share their experiences with scammers online.
—Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Scammer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scammer. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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