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
Posing as an employee of a Texas steel company, a scammer succeeded in diverting more than half a million dollars’ worth of steel coil products from a Northbrook supply company to unknown locations, according to a Northbrook police report.
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Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
Popular tourist destinations are among the prime targets for scammers, thanks to large crowds and the high rate of purchases.
—Jessica Puckett, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2025
Instead of using the same message repeatedly, scammers now rely on AI to rewrite the threat in dozens of ways.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 May 2025
One Michigan consumer reported losing $250 last year to scammers as a fee to open an account with DTE Energy.
—Susan Tompor, USA Today, 27 May 2025
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Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
Popular tourist destinations are among the prime targets for scammers, thanks to large crowds and the high rate of purchases.
—Jessica Puckett, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2025
Instead of using the same message repeatedly, scammers now rely on AI to rewrite the threat in dozens of ways.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 May 2025
One Michigan consumer reported losing $250 last year to scammers as a fee to open an account with DTE Energy.
—Susan Tompor, USA Today, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scammer
Noun
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Hayakawa is a plaintive storyteller who refuses to indulge in emotional cheats of any kind, and would rather a scene be impenetrably oblique than overexplain its purpose.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
19 May 2025
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Her most notable reporting has been about taxes, including exposing billionaire tax cheats and writing cover stories on tax shelters (both corporate and individual), tax evasion, tax informants, tax administration, tax policy and legitimate tax planning.—
Emma Whitford,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Try, try again Speaking of classes, the eight options here tend to fall into the usual archetypes for this kind of action-adventure game: the tank, the mage, the defensive specialist, the dextrous dodger, etc.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 May 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
Noun
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One of them estimated the shark was about 10 feet long.—
Jillian Frankel,
People.com,
3 June 2025
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The shark gnawed on his surfboard, but Heller was unharmed.—
Joe Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 June 2025
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“Scammer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scammer. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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