How to Use scam in a Sentence

scam

1 of 2 noun

• She was the victim of an insurance scam.
• That is why this scam can work.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2026
• That makes the scam easy to miss.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2026
• What does a scam call look like?
  — Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 13 Mar. 2026
• In her mind, this was not a scam.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Feb. 2026
• This seemed more than a boast or scam.
  — Paul C. Sereno, The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2026
• Tax scams rarely stay the same for long.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Mar. 2026
• That means the old scam clues may not show up.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2026
• Of course, some of these scams are easy to spot.
  — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
• At the same time, the scale of these scams has changed.
  — Mike Winters, CNBC, 9 May 2026
• Most of us, most of the time, can smell a scam.
  — Bruce Schneier, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Jan. 2026
• That number is the core of the scam.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025
• The scam often starts with a call.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2026
• This will not stop every scam call.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026
• Such fraud scams are common in the area.
  — Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
• That could bring fewer scam calls.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026
• Why do people fall for these types of scams?
  — Madhusree Mukerjee, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2025
• Others warn about the risk of scams.
  — Jennifer Liu anuz Thapa, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2026
• That can lead to more scam messages.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 Mar. 2026
• Many scams now start with research.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
• These scams succeed when fear takes over.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Feb. 2026
• The scam does not stop with one generic text.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2026
• That is often the next stage of the scam.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
• The scams don’t persist for long.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• But these scam centers are not just about theft.
  — Mike Kuiken, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
• What are the most common weight loss scams?
  — Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 19 Jan. 2026
• When that fails, the scam can move from the phone to the front door.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2026
• At the same time, these scams are not going away.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
• That low cost helps explain why this scam can spread.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2026
• This one simple pause can stop a scam in its tracks.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025

scam

2 of 2 verb

• I could tell they were scamming you and charging too much.
• They scammed a lot of money from unwary customers.
• The company scammed hundreds of people out of their life savings.
• Name a program, and someone is trying to scam it.
  — Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
• Bad actors can use almost anything to scam you.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• All of those videos seemingly aimed to scam viewers of their money.
  — Angela Yang, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2024
• The film revolves around a group of former strip club employees who scam their rich clients.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Mar. 2019
• On the surface, Hustlers is, of course, about strippers who scam wealthy men.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
• Trying to scam the system and make deals to rip people off is easier.
  — Ariel Lebeau, Billboard, 10 Apr. 2019
• Your information can be purchased by spammers, who can then spam or scam you.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2023
• Turns out their feel-good story was a fraud; the three of them were working together to scam the public.
  — CBS News, 22 Dec. 2019
• Little black dresses are slimming — and little black feathers scam the eye.
  — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2019
• Does the average business in a mega-growth economy try to scam its customers?
  — Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
• Hustlers is an upcoming film about a group of strippers who scam and steal from their Wall Street clients.
  — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 30 Apr. 2019
• Some of these calls may be legitimate, but many of them are spam calls or robocalls that are trying to sell you something or scam you.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 12 Oct. 2023
• Dow narrowly lost his re-election bid to council last fall, so he's been trying to scam his way back onto the public dole.
  — Mark Naymik, cleveland.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Companies that suggest otherwise may be trying to scam you.
  — Dan Simms, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026
• While references are called upon, most candidates scam the system.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• Seth finds success there but also realizes that his firm is a chop shop that essentially scams investors.
  — Lillian Brown, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2023
• Venus’s Citroën arrives at a Burger King, where her gang scams the restaurant out of a free meal.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 26 July 2019
• People never seem to waste an opportunity to scam.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• The single mother says the ads are promoting products that look like hers, and sending customers to scam sites overseas.
  — Frankie McLister, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
• The resident suspected the men damaged the vehicle and then approached him to fix it in an effort to scam him.
  — chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• Or a pyramid scheme is like some entity that is intending to scam people by showing false returns that are based on new money coming in.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 14 Mar. 2018
• Other catfish want to scam money from their victims, or the catfishing is the first step in a plan to kidnap or physically abuse them.
  — Adryan Corcione, Teen Vogue, 21 Jan. 2020
• The preening old matriarch tends her roses, while Coriolanus’ cousin Tigris scams fancy clothes from her boozy fashion boss.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 19 May 2020
• Any attempt to defraud or scam others is in clear violation of our terms of service and strictly prohibited.
  — Patricia Hernandez, The Verge, 9 Nov. 2018
• But the sites were actually a ruse to scam customers out of their money, according to law enforcement in Europe.
  — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
• Tavia Thomas, 47, of Hempstead, posed as a travel agency owner to scam customers, police said.
  — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2026
• Police said a caller attempted to scam a resident out of several thousand dollars by claiming to be his grandson.
  — Pioneer Press Staff, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2019