Synonyms of scammers

scammers

noun

plural of scammer

as in cheats

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cheats
• dodgers
• sharks
• swindlers
• fraudsters
• cheaters
• defrauders
• phonies
• chiselers
• sharpers
• scamsters
• skinners
• tricksters
• confidence men
• hoaxers
• sharpies
• adventurers
• ringers
• fakirs
• bilks
• foxes
• trickers
• cozeners
• charlatans
• bilkers
• finaglers
• impostors
• fakers
• pretenders
• fakes
• quacks
• sneakers
• shams
• mountebanks
• humbugs
• rogues
• schemers
• knaves
• pranksters
• double-crossers
• sneaks
• rascals
• plotters
• bluffers
• double-dealers
• slicksters
• gamesmen
• blacklegs
• quacksalvers
• wheeler-dealers
• slickers
• smoothies
• cardsharps
• fast-talkers
• slicks
• slyboots

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of scammers

Unfortunately, scammers have learned how to turn those codes against us. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2026

Some scammers use the names of real employees or manipulate the caller ID to make the call seem legitimate. — Karma Sabbah, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026

There appears to be no indication the scammer or scammers behind this web of deception are anywhere close to slowing down. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2026

At twenty-four, the soprano ability gone, his coffers emptied by heroin and scammers, Lymon, in his addict’s senescence, spoke to a reporter from Ebony magazine; a year later, he would be found dead on his grandmother’s bathroom floor. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2026

Being registered also won't prevent calls from scammers who ignore the law. — Brian Sloan, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2026

The scammers allegedly instructed her multiple times to leave large amounts of money in a box and wait for a courier to pick it up, Riley said. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2026

Last year, other security specialists detected a similar threat, from scammers who prompted LLMs to hallucinate plausible URLs for existing software packages. — David Berreby, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Aug. 2026