as in cheat
a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value
Internet scammers who never seem to run out of swindles
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Recent Examples of scammer
Then they were targeted by scammers, who claimed they were sent to tow the car.
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Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2025
Vehicles are registered with a VIN number upon arriving in West Africa, but vehicle laundering hubs throughout the region offer scammers the opportunity to alter the identification number or purchase counterfeit registration paperwork.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Natalia Grace isn’t some maniacal scammer hellbent on tearing a family apart; Natalia is a child, desperate to be part of a family after a lifetime of longing to be loved.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
Multiple law enforcement agencies across the U.S. told Newsweek that the scams occur intermittently and are hard for officials to track, including how much money scammers have been successful in getting from victims.
—Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
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Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2025
Vehicles are registered with a VIN number upon arriving in West Africa, but vehicle laundering hubs throughout the region offer scammers the opportunity to alter the identification number or purchase counterfeit registration paperwork.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Natalia Grace isn’t some maniacal scammer hellbent on tearing a family apart; Natalia is a child, desperate to be part of a family after a lifetime of longing to be loved.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
Multiple law enforcement agencies across the U.S. told Newsweek that the scams occur intermittently and are hard for officials to track, including how much money scammers have been successful in getting from victims.
—Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scammer
Noun
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To his supporters, the bluff and feints were all tactics of a master negotiator taking on the world’s trade cheats.—
Laurent Belsie,
Christian Science Monitor,
11 Apr. 2025
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In addition, in the Fall of 2024 the IRS-CI increased its efforts against wealthy tax cheats with actions against 1,600 taxpayers earning more than a million dollars a year which by July of 2024 had already brought in $1 billion in collections.—
Steve Weisman,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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The layoffs of roughly 7,000 Internal Revenue Service probationary workers beginning this week probably mean the end of the agency’s plan to go after high-wealth tax dodgers and could spell disaster for revenue collection, experts say.—
Fatima Hussein,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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The baseball world will look back at this era of dodger baseball 30 years from now and have nothing but fond memories and positive things to say about it.—
Fabian Ardaya,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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To see how small businesses are responding, Forbes reached out to 10 Shark Tank entrepreneurs across multiple industries, along with each of their celebrity sharks.—
Danielle Chemtob,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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Steve is out to find the jaguar shark who killed his partner, but Klaus finds his own enemy in a Zissou fan (Owen Wilson) who believes the undersea documentarian is his dad. 10.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Scammer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scammer. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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