plural scammers
: one who perpetrates a scam : a person who commits or participates in a fraudulent scheme or operation
insurance/credit card scammers
The company will not call you to ask for your Social Security or account number, but nefarious scammers might.—
Ellen Marks
Ellen MarksNow that most people are alert to suspicious e-mails and phony phone calls, text messages are the new frontier for scammers out to con you.—Consumer Reports
Consumer ReportsExamples of scammer in a Sentence
Internet scammers who never seem to run out of swindles
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With a data removal service, your personal information is removed from the web so data brokers and scammers never get their hands on your personal phone number, home address or email address.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2025
Gmail is by far the most popular free email platform on the planet, not just with email users but also for assorted threat actors, scammers and hackers.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Some scammers will use the name of a real employee at a company, so that is not necessarily always a sign that a job opening is legitimate.
—Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
There are also fringe players, a remora economy of hospitality workers and scammers with the lines frequently blurred.
—Joe Joyce, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Mar. 2025
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Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2025
Gmail is by far the most popular free email platform on the planet, not just with email users but also for assorted threat actors, scammers and hackers.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Some scammers will use the name of a real employee at a company, so that is not necessarily always a sign that a job opening is legitimate.
—Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
There are also fringe players, a remora economy of hospitality workers and scammers with the lines frequently blurred.
—Joe Joyce, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Scammer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scammer. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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