How to Use scam in a Sentence

scam

1 of 2 noun

• She was the victim of an insurance scam.
• Here’s the snag: With AI, there could be a new set of scams popping up.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2023
• Liza Likins is one of those who fell victim to such a scam.
  — Anna Werner, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2024
• Third, report any scams to the agency at ReportFraud.ftc.gov.
  — CBS News, 25 Dec. 2023
• How to spot fake travel sites This is far from the only scam in town.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• And, in the case of Alix Earle, what if your rental is a total scam?
  — Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 25 May 2023
• Be wary of potential scams and look for the warning signs.
  — Ashley Donohoe, Car and Driver, 2 Sep. 2023
• In other words, Delvey has found a new scam target: your very ears.
  — Vulture, 30 May 2023
• While many of the poison PDFs push people towards scams, not all of them do.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2023
• The scams themselves have also changed over the years, and spotting one is harder.
  — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• But the coach’s devilish provocations are what linger in the mind long after the shock of the scam’s specifics fades.
  — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023
• That’s why Messenger is a perfect place for crooks to spread their scams.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2023
• An elderly man lost millions in a scam:Could the bank have done more to prevent fraud?
  — USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
• The view from Neo Lu’s window in one of the buildings rented by the scam operation.
  — Isabelle Qian, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
• But young people aren’t the only ones who have fallen for a MrBeast scam.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
• But he’ll have been forced to drink a humiliating cup of truth over a scam he’s been pulling for years.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2023
• The Theranos scam co-conspirators have to foot a huge bill for their crimes.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 17 May 2023
• Then the numbers began to show up in cold-calling scams to swindle people.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• That was the biggest increase among all age demographics and all scams.
  — Robert Legare, Jeff Pegues, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2023
• Reports of the elaborate scam have increased in recent months.
  — Justin Green, ABC News, 7 July 2023
• How to guard against mortgage scams Why do hackers target mortgage lenders?
  — Nerdwallet, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• To empower you to stay vigilant and avoid falling prey to these all-too-common scams.
  — Lauren Krouse, Good Housekeeping, 8 Sep. 2023
• The Indianapolis Zoo has had to mention the phishing ad to patrons for first pointed out the scam to zoo patrons on X on Feb. 26.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Mar. 2024
• Naysayers called it a PR scam to garner goodwill or bolster the market for Live Nation’s own venues.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 1 Nov. 2023
• The size of the industry and the depth of the need for credit fixes has also meant opportunity for scams and bad actors.
  — Mya Frazier, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• Rybak found that top art institutions had fallen for the scam.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
• The finale will wrap the story on Aug. 27, spinning forward to see where these scams stand now and examining the key players that keep the system afloat.
  — Time, 18 Aug. 2023
• In recent weeks, Malaysia has also asked the Telegram app to take down material that may have been part of online scams.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 23 June 2023
• When someone offers to buy a commodity quickly and at a much higher price, this could be a scam.
  — Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• Some have a hard time with the idea of staying in a stranger's home, while others worry about possible scams or homes not matching their listings.
  — Joe Mutascio, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2023

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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.
• The film revolves around a group of former strip club employees who scam their rich clients.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Mar. 2019
• All of those videos seemingly aimed to scam viewers of their money.
  — Angela Yang, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Trying to scam the system and make deals to rip people off is easier.
  — Ariel Lebeau, Billboard, 10 Apr. 2019
• 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
• 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
• The first part of the movie, not unlike a Scorsese gangster film, is all fun and games, as a poor family, the Kims, scam their way into the service of a wealthy family, the Parks.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 11 Dec. 2019
• Elsewhere in the interview, Palmer pitched Bassett on the idea of remaking the 2001 movie Heartbreakers about a mom and her daughter who scam wealthy men.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2022
• The book’s title refers to Troy Augustus Loudermilk, who scams his way into the program with the help of his friend Harry.
  — The New Yorker, 4 June 2019
• 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
• Your information can be purchased by spammers, who can then spam or scam you.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2023
• The bipartisan Stopping Bad Robocalls Act would outlaw a slate of methods fraudsters use to scam consumers over the phone and through text.
  — Makena Kelly, The Verge, 17 July 2019
• After looking at the texts, the officer determined that they were being sent from someone trying to scam the man out of $700.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2019
• Little black dresses are slimming — and little black feathers scam the eye.
  — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2019
• The Warrensville Heights man, 29, became upset and began cursing at the manager, who believed the man was trying to scam the store out of money.
  — cleveland.com, 17 July 2019
• 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
• The comedy, based on this 2015 New York magazine article, centers on a group of strippers who scam their rich, sleazy male clients out of thousands of dollars.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2019
• At Turner’s neighborhood cigar store, there’s a street hustler who scams passers-by into playing Pass the Lady, but Turner never gets drawn in.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 18 July 2019
• In Identity Theft of a Cheerleader, Vicky scams her way to cheer captain by causing the actual captain to slip and injure herself.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 10 Sep. 2019
• How to avoid commerce scams: Cybercriminals may take advantage of your need to self-quarantine to scam you out of your money.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 16 Mar. 2020
• Seth finds success there but also realizes that his firm is a chop shop that essentially scams investors.
  — Lillian Brown, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Unfortunately, in the Web3 space, there are serial scammer-entrepreneurs who make one project that scams people out of money, and then use the money from that scam to fund second, third and fourth projects.
  — Dyma Budorin, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• The drama will follow revenge-seeking strippers who band together with a group of fellow exotic dancers to scam their male Wall Street clients out of thousands of dollars.
  — Christina Dugan, PEOPLE.com, 5 July 2019

Last Updated: 3 May 2024