scammer

English

Etymology

scam +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈskæmɚ/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)

Noun

scammer (plural scammers)

1. (slang) A swindler, cheat.
   • 2017 November 10, Aaron Mak, “This Hilarious Chatbot Messes with Scammers for You”, in Slate‎^[1]:

     According to Netsafe, scammers send out a bunch of emails, hoping to snag a few gullible people, but simply deleting the offending email won’t do anything to impede the con.

   • 2023 December 13, “Network News: £13,000 stolen via car park QR”, in RAIL, number 998, page 11:

     TransPennine Express has removed all QR codes from its 71 car parks after scammers covered up a genuine code sticker with a false one and stole £13,000 from a woman's bank account.

Related terms

• 419 scammer

Translations

swindler, cheat

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
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• Belarusian: махляр m (maxljar), махлярка f (maxljarka)
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• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: estafador m, estafadora f
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• Finnish: huijari (fi), petkuttaja (fi)
• Galician: pufista m, caloteiro m, estafador m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Schwindler (de) m, Schwindlerin (de) f
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: csaló (hu), svindler (hu)
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• Plautdietsch: Schwindla n
• Polish: oszust (pl) m
• Portuguese: golpista (pt) m or f, vigarista (pt) m or m pl
• Punjabi: ਸਕੈਮਰ m (sakaimar)
• Romanian: țepar m
• Russian: мошенник (ru) m (mošennik), мошенница (ru) f (mošennica)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: defraudador (es) m, estafador (es) m
• Swedish: lurendrejare (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
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• Ukrainian: зди́рник m (zdýrnyk), здира́ч m (zdyráč), здира́чка f (zdyráčka), шахра́й m (šaxráj), шахра́йка f (šaxrájka), ошука́ч m (ošukáč), ошука́чка f (ošukáčka), ошука́нець m (ošukánecʹ), ошука́нка f (ošukánka)
• Vietnamese: thằng lừa đảo

Anagrams

• cammers