Crossword clues for scam
scam
- Unethical way to make money
- Too-good-to-be-true investment
- Three-card monte, notably
- Three-card monte is one
- Shell game, say
- Shady scheme
- Run a con on
- Ploy that targets the gullible
- Pigeon drop, for one
- Pigeon drop, e.g
- Phishing, for one
- Phisher's scheme
- Phisher's ploy
- One might take you in
- Nigerian e-mail, sometimes
- Illegitimate money-making scheme
- Illegal scheme
- Illegal investment scheme
- GULL or ROOK
- Grifter's scheme, such as the "Nigerian prince" email con
- Grifter's plan
- Fast-buck artist's ploy
- E-mail from Nigeria, maybe
- Dishonest hustle
- Con man's game
- Con artist's work
- Con artist's racket
- Certain artist's forte
- Bogus plan
- Bait and switch is one
- A fast one
- Word with the same consonant sounds as "scheme"
- Unsafe offer
- Trap for a pigeon
- Thimblerig, e.g
- Taking-in activity
- Swindler's speciality
- Swindler's plan
- Swindler's enterprise
- Swindler's con
- Suspicious offer, perhaps
- Subject of a Better Business Bureau investigation
- Spanish Prisoner, for one
- Sketchy-looking email from PayPal, likely
- Sketchy offer
- Shell game, for one
- Shady plan
- Record label fast one
- Pyramid scheme
- Pyramid marketing opportunity, most likely
- Promoter rip-off
- Ponzi game, e.g
- Plot that's "pulled"
- Plan to trick someone out of their money
- Pigeon drop e.g
- Phone call telling you to pay the IRS immediately or you'll be thrown in jail, e.g
- Phishing scheme, e.g
- Phishing or a Ponzi scheme
- Phishing offer, e.g
- Phishing offer
- Phishing expedition
- Phishing email, e.g
- Phishing attempt
- Phishing activity
- Pecuniary deception
- Patsy's downfall
- One might take in a few marks
- One might get a mark
- Notification that you've won a foreign lottery, in all likelihood
- Nigerian prince's offering, e.g
- Nigerian lottery e-mail, e.g
- Nigerian Letter, for one
- Nigerian email, often
- Nasty bit of trickery
- Moneymaking opportunity that isnt
- Money-losing venture?
- Matter of confidence?
- Mark time?
- Many an unrealistic email offer
- Many a robocall
- Many a get-rich-quick scheme
- Main plot element in "The Sting"
- It's not legit
- It's got a lot of marks
- It's a ripoff
- It works on marks
- It may involve wiring
- It has a mark
- Investment fraud
- Instance of fraud
- In retrospect, it may have sounded too good to be true
- Illegal operation
- Hustler's scheme
- Hustler's gimmick
- Hosing design
- Hood's hoodwink
- Gull's trap
- Grifter's racket
- Grifter's idea
- Grift, e.g
- Get-rich-quick scheme, almost always
- Get-rich-quick offer, usually
- Get-rich-quick offer, often
- Game won by not playing?
- Free money offer
- Fraudulent practice
- Fraudulent plan
- Fraudulent deal
- Fraudster's ploy
- Frank Abagnale hustle
- Fake I.R.S. call, e.g
- Email saying you won a foreign lottery, e.g
- Email from Nigeria, often
- Email for the spam folder, probably
- Email asking for money, perhaps
- E-mail from a Nigerian prince, maybe
- E-mail for the spam filter, probably
- Dodgy business
- Dishonest practice
- Dishonest deal
- Contract con
- Contract cheat
- Confidence man's activity
- Con man's thing
- Con man's job
- Con man's activity
- Con artist's plan
- Con artist's moneymaker
- Con artist's hustle
- Con artist's doings
- Con artist's creation
- Con artist's con
- Chain letter, perhaps
- Cellphone alert subject
- Catfishing, e.g
- Bunko squad concern
- Bogus deal
- Bit of bunco
- Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, for one
- Artist's work?
- Apple varieties / Trick
- Any pyramid scheme, e.g
- Amway, some say
- Almost any offer that's too good to be true
- A Ponzi scheme is one
- "You just won a cruise" email, e.g
- "You have won!" email, often
- "See who's viewing your profile" on Facebook
- Sting operation
- Sucker play
- Ripoff
- Bunco game
- Dupe's undoing
- Pigeon drop, e.g.
- Swindler's scheme
- Con game
- Ponzi scheme, e.g
- Con artist's game
- Defraud
- Rip-off artist's ploy
- Pull a con
- Deception
- Con man's con
- Con artist's art
- Con job
- Run a game on
- Fraudulent scheme
- Fast one
- Rip off in a way
- Money-losing proposition
- Fast shuffle, so to speak
- Fleece
- Fraudulent operation
- Cheat out of money
- Trick
- Ensnaring scheme
- Pyramid scheme, e.g.
- Cozenage
- Shell game, e.g.
- E-mail offer of $17,000,000.00, e.g.
- Pyramid scheme, for one
- E-mail from a Nigerian with $10 million to give you, e.g.
- Hustler's ploy
- Take for a ride, so to speak
- Shell game, e.g
- Ponzi scheme, e.g.
- One may take you in
- Hoodwink
- Offer that seems too good to be true, probably
- Bernie Madoff's hedge fund, e.g.
- One reported to the Better Business Bureau
- It takes folks in
- Offer that's too good to be true, often
- Contrivance for taking people for a ride
- Many an e-mail "click here" offer
- E-mail from a Nigerian prince, probably
- E-mail from a Nigerian prince, usually
- Goal of phishing
- Too-good-to-be-true offer, often
- Phishing lure?
- Fool
- Do a Bernie Madoff job on
- Fleecing activity
- Source of ill-gotten gains
- Arrangement of hosing?
- Many a carnival game
- Get-rich-quick offer, typically
- Grift, e.g.
- Flimflam scheme
- Put one over on
- Attorney general's investigation target
- Play for a fool
- Almost any "Get rich quick!" offer
- Deal with a huge catch
- Robocall from the I.R.S., e.g.
- Rook or gull
- A fraudulent business scheme
- Con man's specialty
- Con artist's ploy
- Con man's ploy
- Confidence game
- Con man's ruse
- Crooked deal
- Con man's trick
- Swindler's ploy
- Thimblerig, e.g.
- Handkerchief switch, e.g.
- How a fool and his money are parted
- Case for the consumer affairs bureau
- Hoax
- Telemarketing danger
- Three-card monte, e.g.
- Hornswaggler's forte
- Con man's scheme
- Operation in "The Sting"
- Con man's forte
- Game of no chance
- Action shared by a shill
- Con man's fakery
- Grifter's operation
- Swindler's ruse
- Entrapment ploy
- Meat cost regularly on reflection is a swindle
- Curtailed rascal’s swindle
- E-mail offer of $17,000,000.00, e.g
- Swindle, fraud
- Swindle rascal detailed
- Swindle quiet one out of seafood
- Swindle as rascal, extracting last penny
- Some computers returned in dodgy scheme
- Sales campaign includes dishonest scheme
- Fraud squad's head about to get married
- Fraud when computers backed up
- Fleece overcoats?
- Fleece coats returned
- Fiddle with computers the wrong way
- Fiddle about during kinky sex
- Rip off bits of clothing aggressively during kinky sex
- Rip off raincoats to throw back
- Revolutionary rainproof clothing racket
- Bernie Madoff's hedge fund, e.g
- Being heartless, get away with trick
- Do computers up
- Do back up computers
- Dishonest scheme
- Trickery from monkey scratching rear
- Take in
- Take to the cleaners
- Grifter's game
- Pull a fast one on
- Kind of artist
- Put something over on
- Confidence trick
- Deceptive scheme
- Phony deal
- Phishing, e.g
- Grifter's specialty
- Pull a fast one
- Bait-and-switch, e.g
- Take for a ride?
- Shady deal
- Bogus offer
- Act of fraud
- Shady business
- Ponzi scheme, for one
- Ponzi scheme, for example
- Grifter's ploy
- Act of deception
- Source of illegitimate income
- Something shady
- Pyramid scheme, for example
- Grifter's forte
- Con artist's scheme
- Bait and switch, for one
- Bad thing to fall for
- Your cheatin' art
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1963, noun and verb, U.S. slang, a carnival term, of unknown origin. Perhaps related to 19c. British slang scamp "cheater, swindler" (see scamp (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. fraudulent deal. vb. To defraud or embezzle.
WordNet
n. a fraudulent business scheme [syn: cozenage]
Wikipedia
A scam or confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence.
Scam may also refer to:
- "Scam" (song), a song by Jamiroquai
- Scam (album), an album by the Screaming Jets
- Scientific Certainty Argumentation Methods
- Superconducting camera
- Soluble cell adhesion molecules (sCAM)
- SCAM – SCSI Configured Automatically
- Scam (film)
- The Scam Artist (2004 film)
- The Scam (2009 film)
- SCAM Spa an Italian truck manufacturer.
Scam is the fifth studio album by the Australian band The Screaming Jets. It was their first record to be released under Grudge Records, after leaving rooArt. The album debuted and peaked at number 36. Singles taken from the album were "Individuality", "Higher With You" and "I Need Your Love".
"Scam" is a song by the British band Jamiroquai. The song appeared on the band's second album, The Return of the Space Cowboy. It is most often cited by fans as one of the most powerful protest songs by the band. Live performances of the song during the The Return of the Space Cowboy tour usually began with a lengthy trumpet solo, and have placed the song at the end of a long chain of songs segued into one another (most often in the order " Blow Your Mind", " Light Years", "Who the Funk Do You Think You Are?", " Emergency on Planet Earth", "Scam"). During the following tours, the song was mostly standalone. A "smooth remix" of the song was planned for a cancelled remix album called Interpretations from Beyond, which was scheduled to be released after Travelling Without Moving.
Scam is a 1993 television film adaptation of crime drama novel by Craig Smith named Ladystinger. It originally aired on Showtime in May 1993.
Usage examples of "scam".
He and I are affinity bonded, which means I can quite literally smell out any scams you dickheads cook up.
Tell the law I think Arroyo had his own building bombed as part of a fund-raising scam?
The usual pattern was a small scam that got bigger and bigger, until the scammer attracted attention by overreaching.
The crack dealer, the shoplifter, the welfare scammer, the chain snatcher.
Indications were that he had no Hollywood or music industry contacts, that he was a con man who had pulled similar stunts in other states and who had successfully scammed several Bonita Vista residents before disappearing.
The rumor is that they do some big-league industrial-materials theft, contract fraud, union scams, phantom hours, world-class featherbedding, drugs.
He was a handsome devil who got busted and Thrown Away for operating a Ponzi investment scam that plundered the stock portfolios of a few hundred credulous old ladies in Sydney, Australia.
Mass torts are a scam, a consumer rip-off, a lottery driven by greed that will one day harm all of us.
Nothing incriminating, just Vulpes letting Vail know that he was still Aaron Stampler and that he had successfully scammed them all.
It was a simple but time-tested scam: Bribes allegedly were funneled to judges in exchange for reducing criminal bonds, suppressing evidence and divulging confidential police information.
Nemoto herself, or the other gerontocrats, who lay behind the whole scam.
Papers usually meant things she had to sign to avoid getting scammed by a school fund-raising drive.
The FTC - the US Federal Trade Commission - has taken legal action against more than 100 spammers for promoting scams and fraudulent goods and services.
She knew I got off easy: three convictions resulting from the scams I worked with Phil Turkel-a phone sales racket that involved the deployment of hardcore loops synced to rock songs and Naugahyde Bibles embossed with glow-in-the-dark pictures of the Rev.
Scott institutionalized and propounded as no one ever had before the agency scams and the pulp ethic of the 1930s, but he was as timebound a creature as A.