Synonyms for scam
skæmscam

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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

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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. Tong Kamgyiu:

   It’s a new form of marriage scam, i feel disappointed and cannot believe it’s even happening in modern Hong Kong.

2. Andre Peterson:

   There’s nothing that I’ve gotten out of this that would constitute it as a scam because I ’m not gaining anything financially from what we’re doing. The reality of it is that I have a son( Javan) that’s also in the program and has been in the program for four years, if it’s a scam and the kids are not going to school and not doing what they’re supposed to do, then I ’m literally scamming Andre Peterson. And most importantly, I ’m hurting my own son. So when people say stuff like that … I would literally be taking my son’s future and throwing it in the trash.

3. Donald Trump:

   The ballot harvesting scam will go down as the biggest political scandal in history, it is totally determinative, and the Democrats are doing everything they can to stop the news from coming out. Republicans must be strong and unified in order to save our Country.

4. Owner Vladislav Yampolski:

   That’s how she tried to scam us, she brought her own materials, wrapped it herself with her own tape and tried to pull the switch because she had the identical package in her bag, pre-made.

5. Elie Honig.MacFarlane:

   I probably would not charge any of the kids unless they had a major role in the scam, they( prosecutors) may lose public sentiment. At a certain point if you are seen to be piling on, things could turn against you. And not just in terms of public opinion but a jury's opinion as well.