English [ edit ]
Etymology [ edit ]
scam + -er
Pronunciation [ edit ]
scammer (plural scammers )
( 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.
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swindler, cheat
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
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Belarusian: махляр m ( maxljar ) , махлярка f ( maxljarka )
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
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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
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