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
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Internet scammers who never seem to run out of swindles
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Anne, who by that time was divorcing her husband, had received funds from the settlement and gave it all to the scammer, who was flooding her with AI pics of Pitt in a hospital bed.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
At the time of writing, police are still searching for the scammer.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
The scammer also sent semi-convincing personalized AI images of Pitt in a hospital via social media and messaging apps to the woman for more than a year.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
The request for money came after the scammers told Anne that Pitt was in the hospital with kidney cancer and needed money for the treatment, but that his bank accounts were allegedly frozen because of his divorce proceedings with ex-wife Angelina Jolie.
—Astha Rajvanshi, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
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Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
At the time of writing, police are still searching for the scammer.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
The scammer also sent semi-convincing personalized AI images of Pitt in a hospital via social media and messaging apps to the woman for more than a year.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
The request for money came after the scammers told Anne that Pitt was in the hospital with kidney cancer and needed money for the treatment, but that his bank accounts were allegedly frozen because of his divorce proceedings with ex-wife Angelina Jolie.
—Astha Rajvanshi, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Scammer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scammer. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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