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Synonyms for scam
skæmscam

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. scamnoun

    Synonyms:
    con game

  2. scamverb

    To defraud or embezzle.

    They tried to scam her out of her savings.

    Synonyms:
    con game

  3. scamverb

    Synonyms:
    conVerb

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. scam, cozenageverb

    a fraudulent business scheme

    Synonyms:
    cozenage

  2. victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, converb

    deprive of by deceit

    "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

    Synonyms:
    rook, cabbage, fiddle, hook, nobble, victimize, gip, shirk, goldbrick, swindle, con, memorise, snatch, diddle, lift, gyp, kidnap, abstract, toy, abduct, pilfer, filch, purloin, snarf, short-change, defraud, hornswoggle, play, victimise, sneak, bunco, pinch, swipe, short, memorize, learn, mulct, shrink from

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. rort

    a 'rort' is defined as an unscrupulous or dishonest practice. this seems to also fit the definition of 'scam'.

    Submitted by rinat on August 7, 2019  

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. SCAM

    Synonyms:
    SciSpeak Scientific College of Arts & Medicine Sports medicine Selection Classification of Age Maturity

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How to use scam in a sentence?

  1. Unknown:

    The private corporate top honchos who used to advocate integrity lessons to their employees or even conduct lectures on ethics as visiting faculty to Business Schools or University, have been seen now getting caught in scam, scandal, bribery and corruption cases.

  2. The FBI:

    Cyber criminals executing this scam request the same information as legitimate employers, making it difficult to identify a hiring scam until it is too late.

  3. Donald Trump:

    What's going on is a disgrace, and it's an embarrassment to our nation, it's a big scam.

  4. Federal Trade Commission:

    If a new love interest wants to show you how to invest in crypto, or asks you to send them crypto, that's a scam.

  5. President Trump:

    It is reported that the U.S. Post Office will lose $1.50 on average for each package it delivers for Amazon. That amounts to Billions of Dollars, if the P.O. ‘increases its parcel rates, Amazon’s shipping costs would rise by $2.6 Billion.’ This Post Office scam must stop. Amazon must pay real costs (and taxes) now!


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