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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Artificial intelligence may help skilled researchers find serious software flaws faster than ever before, which means scammers and cybercriminals could eventually use similar tools to find weak spots before companies have time to patch them.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
Last year, Amazon reported a 33% spike in scammers impersonating its customer service.
—Joshua Sidorowicz, CBS News, 1 June 2026
To begin with, the community is run by Blaine Shaw (Seth Numrich), surely the slickest scammer of old folks since John Mahoney’s nursing-home embezzler in 1989’s Say Anything.
—Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 31 May 2026
The housing market ended up bearing a disproportionate cost from successful scammers who filed fraudulent claims filed under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 29 May 2026
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
Last year, Amazon reported a 33% spike in scammers impersonating its customer service.
—Joshua Sidorowicz, CBS News, 1 June 2026
To begin with, the community is run by Blaine Shaw (Seth Numrich), surely the slickest scammer of old folks since John Mahoney’s nursing-home embezzler in 1989’s Say Anything.
—Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 31 May 2026
The housing market ended up bearing a disproportionate cost from successful scammers who filed fraudulent claims filed under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 29 May 2026
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“Scammer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scammer. Accessed 8 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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