scammer - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • 1.3 Noun
    * 1.3.1 Synonyms
    * 1.3.2 Derived terms
    * 1.3.4 Translations
  • 1.4 Anagrams

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From scam + -er.

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈskæmə/
• (General American, without æ-raising) IPA(key): /ˈskæmɚ/
  • (æ-raising) IPA(key): /ˈskeə̯mɚ/, /ˈskɛə̯mɚ/
• Rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: scam‧mer

scammer (plural scammers)

1. (slang) A person who commits fraud by making dishonest scams and business deals: swindler, cheat, grifter.
   • 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.

• See Thesaurus:fraudster

• cyberscammer

• 419 scammer

swindler, cheat

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can

• Belarusian: махляр m (maxljar), махлярка f (maxljarka)

• Bengali: please add this translation if you can

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can

• Catalan: estafador m, estafadora f

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 騙子 / 骗子 (zh) (piànzi)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can

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• Estonian: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: huijari (fi), petkuttaja (fi)

• French: arnaqueur (fr) m, escroc (fr)

• 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)

• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can

• Kurdish:
  Northern Kurdish: hîlekar (ku) m or f, xapîner (ku) m or f

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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

• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

• 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

• cammers

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• English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)
• English 2-syllable words
• English terms with IPA pronunciation
• English terms with audio pronunciation
• Rhymes:English/æmə(ɹ)
• Rhymes:English/æmə(ɹ)/2 syllables
• English lemmas
• English nouns
• English countable nouns
• English slang
• English terms with quotations