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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Stop all communication: Cease all contact with the scammer immediately.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2024
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Shoppers are going to spend a lot of money on gifts this year, and thieves and scammers know that.
—Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
The message asks the user to enter personal information that the scammer will use to open a bank account, for instance, or cause some other financial harm to the individual scammed.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2024
Squibb plays a 93-year-old grandmother (Squibb is 95 now) who is conned by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson Daniel (Fred Hechinger).
—Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 27 Dec. 2024
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Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2024
New and old Nashville restaurants to try at Opry Mills mall
How to protect your Black Friday packages, bank account
Shoppers are going to spend a lot of money on gifts this year, and thieves and scammers know that.
—Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
The message asks the user to enter personal information that the scammer will use to open a bank account, for instance, or cause some other financial harm to the individual scammed.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2024
Squibb plays a 93-year-old grandmother (Squibb is 95 now) who is conned by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson Daniel (Fred Hechinger).
—Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Scammer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scammer. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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