Synonyms for scam
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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 WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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

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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  

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1. List of paraphrases for "scam":

   fraud, con, rip-off, deception, swindle, swindling, bluff, sting, hustle, racket, porno, hoax, sham, deceit, porn

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SCAM

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

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1. Greg Castle:

   Scammers will scam, obviously, if you answer a call and it sounds too good to be true, just hang up.

2. David Besso:

   He was going about his official duties as an airline mechanic, somehow the government had planted scam cocaine in the plane, which he said wasn't supposed to be there and went over and touched it and they arrested him.

3. The Edge Media Group:

   We don’t see how exposing the scam to cheat the people of Malaysia of billions of ringgit can be construed as being detrimental to public and national interest, this is nothing more than a move to shut us down in order to shut us up.

4. Mark Erlich:

   In construction, when contractors started reclassifying their workers from employees to independent contractors, it was just a scam to save money, what's different now is it's no longer [ viewed as ] a' scam,' it's [ positioned by the companies ] as beautiful scheme -- a new conception of work in which you are your own boss, have flexibility scheduling -- it is actually seen as desirable.

5. Donald Trump:

   Mo Brooks of Alabama made a horrible mistake recently when he went ‘woke’ and stated, referring to the 2020 Presidential Election Scam, ‘Put that behind you, put that behind you,’.