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
When Anne read that Pitt was in a relationship with Ines De Ramon, the scammers reportedly sent something denying the reports.
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Liam Quinn, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
The scammers operate from the US and India and have impersonated over 400 mortgage institutions.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2025
Rise Of Synthetic Identity Fraud And Social Engineering Synthetic identity fraud is where scammers use AI to clone voices, alter videos or fabricate identities to commit online fraud and deception, or to pass identity verification checks.
—Stu Sjouwerman, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Janet asked if the scammers could have taken any information.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2024
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Liam Quinn, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
The scammers operate from the US and India and have impersonated over 400 mortgage institutions.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2025
Rise Of Synthetic Identity Fraud And Social Engineering Synthetic identity fraud is where scammers use AI to clone voices, alter videos or fabricate identities to commit online fraud and deception, or to pass identity verification checks.
—Stu Sjouwerman, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Janet asked if the scammers could have taken any information.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scammer
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By neglecting to impose a time or monkey limit on the experiment, the infinite monkey theorem essentially contains its own cheat code.Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
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Suarez felt like a cheat code in fantasy football that season.The Athletic UK Football Writers, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
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While the move aimed at keeping counterfeiters and tax dodgers on the back foot appears at odds with the growing popularity of cash-free transactions by consumers and businesses, central bank and finance ministry officials continue to flag the enduring importance of paper money.Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Asia, 3 July 2024
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Indictment details In the indictment, the department’s tax attorneys portrayed Rotta as a perennial tax dodger.Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
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Taxonomic charts on the walls borrow the aesthetic of science but are populated with terms from the history of art and absurd twists: a bird is labeled with the names of 20th-century avant-garde movements, a shark is juxtaposed with a rolling pin and a cola bottle.Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 10 Jan. 2025
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Unless Jordan got eaten by a shark or something like that, there was no catching him — and even the shark would've probably had a tough time catching him.Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Scammer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scammer. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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