Scam

Definitions: Scam

Scam

Noun

1. A fraudulent business scheme.

Verb

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

SCAM

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Scam

That's not even a scam. (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

It's a scam. Nerds were doin' it twenty five years ago and new nerds are doing it again. (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

I think you're sort of a scam artist. (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling)

If you refuse to grow up and scam your insurance company, you'll have to work this out with maroon Golf. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Oh good, a scam! (Rat Race; writing credit: Andy Breckman)

Scam (2001)

The Anal Nurse Scam (1995)

Uncle Scam (1981)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Chuck Whitlock's Scam School (reference)

• Faking It in America: Barry Minkow and the Great Zzzz Best Scam (reference)

• Home Businesses You Can Buy: The Definitive Guide to Exploring Franchises, Multi-Level Marketing, and Business Opportunities Plus: How to Avoid scam (reference)

• Players: Con Men, Hustlers, Gamblers and Scam Artists (reference)

• Scam and Eggs: Stories (Five Star First Edition Mystery Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Big Scam (reference)

• James Bond Jr.: Goldie's Gold Scam (reference)

• Scam (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Royal Scam (reference)

• The Royal Scam [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Travel

Senegal

Most reported incidents involve pickpockets, purse-snatchers and street scam artists. (references)

Switzerland

A typical scam used against businessmen is for a thief to grab an attache case in a hotel or airport while an accomplice distracts the victim. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

The scam victim is typically asked to pay a small fee to open a bank account, and this is followed by requests for escalating amounts to cover legal expenses and fees. (references)

Worker Rights

Morocco

This was similar to a scam reported in 1999 between Morocco and the Persian Gulf states. (references)

Morocco

The law does not specifically prohibit trafficking in persons; under the Penal Code perpetrators are prosecuted either as scam artists, corrupters of minors, or persons who force others into prostitution. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "scam": scam artist. Additional references.

German

Betrug (amounted, amounted to, bamboozlement, cheating, confidence trick, deceit, deception, delusiveness, fiddle, fooling, fraud, fraud in mortgage dealings, fraudulent act, hole-and-corner dealings, imposture, swindle, swindling, toll fraud, underhand dealings, willful deception). (various references)

Greek 

απάτη (beguilement, bilk, cheat, circumvention, con, deceit, deception, delusion, fake, fallacy, fraud, gammon, guile, gyp, hoax, humbug, humbuggery, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, sham, spoof, swindle, swindling, toll fraud, trick, trickery). (various references)

Hungarian

szélhámosság (bunco, cole, fake, gouge, humbug, quackery, racket, roguery, smart practice, swindle), csalás (a plant, bubble, cheat, cheating, chisel, chouse, collusion, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, delusion, fake, fallacy, falsehood, foul play, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gouge, gyp, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, let in, racket, roguery, sell, snide, swindle, swizzle, trickery), becsapás (chisel, cole, dupery, eye-wash, fraud, gouge, gyp, hocus pocus, sell, victimization), átverés (burn, ramp, rip off), átvágás (burn, cutoff, cut-off, intersection, through cut, traverse), átejtés (burn, gimmick, gyp, letdown, spoof). (various references)

Indonesian

penipuan (deceit, deception, dissimulation, embezzlement, put-upon), penggelapan (black out, blackout, cover up, darkenong, embezling, embezzlement, fraud, malversation), pencurian (larceny, looting, rubbing, theft). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

軟派 (flirt, moderate party, scope, skirt chaser, soft school). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

な�"ぱ (flirt, moderate party, scope, shipwreck, skirt chaser, soft school). (various references)

Pig Latin

amscay

Portuguese

plano maligno, cambalacho. (various references)

Russian 

мошенничество (chouse, dishonesty, do, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, hanky-panky, knavery, numbers game, rascality, roguery, scams, sharp practice, skin-game), жульничество (imposture, numbers game). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "scam": scammed, scamming, scammonies, scammony, scamp, scamped, scamper, scampered, scampering, scampers, scampi, scampies, scamping, scampish, scamps, scams. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Scam" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ccem, ccma, csma, Ecma, Essam, sacan, samf, sbam, sca, scaan, scae, scaf, scal, scama, scamu, scav, scaw, Scca, Scda, scek, scem, scema, sceme, scfm, scham, Schaum, scim, scm, scoim, scom, scoma, scoom, secam, Secim, sicam, sicav, Siccama, ska, skam, skan, skaz, Skem, smac, spamm, ssasm, ssm, suam, suca. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cams, macs.

-1 letter: cam, mac, mas, sac.

-2 letters: am, as, ma.

+1 letter: acmes, calms, camas, cames, camps, chams, chasm, clams, comas, crams, cymas, maces, machs, macks, marcs, micas, musca, scamp, scams, scram, smack, sumac.

+2 letters: amices, amicus, amucks, camass, camels, cameos, camisa, camise, campos, campus, caroms, champs, charms, chasms, chasmy, chiasm, claims, clamps, commas, cramps, creams, cymars, macaws, macers, maches, machos, macles, macons, macros, magics, manics, mascon, mascot, mastic, meccas, mescal, misact, mochas, mosaic, mucosa, muscae, muscat, racism, sachem, sacrum, samech, scampi, scamps, schema, scrams, scream, smacks, socman, sumach, sumacs, umiacs.

+3 letters: acumens, almuces, ambsace, amerces, amesace, amnesic, amtracs, anosmic, atomics, becalms, caeomas, caesium, caimans, calamus, calmest, camails, camases, cambers, cambism, cambist, cameras, camions, camisas, camises, camisia, camlets, campers, carroms, caymans, chacmas, chamise, chamiso, chamois, charism, chasmal, chasmed, chasmic, chiasma, chiasmi, chiasms, chimars, chimlas, chlamys, chrisma, chromas, cinemas, clamors, comakes, comates, combats, compass, copalms, crambes, crambos, cumshaw, cymbals, czarism, decamps, drachms, eczemas, encamps, fascism, iambics, impacts, jicamas, lactams, laicism, macacos, mackles, macrons, maculas, macules, madcaps, malices, manches, maniacs, maniocs, maracas, marasca, marcels, marches, mascara, mascons, mascots, masonic, mastics, matches, menaces, mesarch, mescals, mezcals, miasmic, misacts, miscall, miscast, mobcaps, mosaics, mucosae, mucosal, mucosas, mudcaps, mudcats, muscats, musical, myricas, narcism, oomiacs, osmatic, plasmic, pomaces, psalmic, racemes, racisms, sachems, sacrums, sambuca, samechs, sanctum, sarcasm, sarcoma, scammed, scamped, scamper, schemas, schmalz, schmear, scotoma, screams, scumbag, sematic, smacked, smacker, sockman, somatic, stomach, sumachs, tachism, talcums, tambacs, tarmacs, tombacs, tomcats, umiacks, vacuums, yashmac.

+4 letters: academes, acclaims, accustom, acronyms, acrosome, acrotism, actinism, activism, alembics, almanacs, ambsaces, amercers, amesaces, amnesiac, amnesics, amnestic, amtracks, apomicts, arcanums, archaism, armlocks, ascidium, atamasco, atticism, autecism, backmost, baculums, balsamic, becharms, brechams, buckrams, cabalism, cabombas, cadmiums, caesiums, calamars, calciums, calmness, calomels, calumets, camasses, cambisms, cambists, cambiums, cambrics, camelias, camisade, camisado, camisias, camisole, camorras, camphols, camphors, campiest, campings, campions, campongs, campsite, campused, campuses, camshaft, capsicum, capsomer, caramels, carmines, casemate, casement, caseworm, cashmere, casimere, casimire, casteism, catmints, cembalos, ceramals, ceramics, ceramist, chamades, chambers, chamfers, chamises, chamisos, chammies, champacs, champaks, champers, charisma, charisms, charmers, chessman, chiasmal, chiasmas, chiasmic, chiasmus, chiliasm, chimeras, chloasma, chrismal, claimers, clambers, clammers, clamours, clampers, clansman, clansmen, classism, clematis, climates, climaxes, coadmits, coamings, coassume, cocomats, cocoyams, comakers, comatiks, comatose, commands, compacts, compares, comparts, comrades, corpsman, cosmical, costmary, cragsman, cragsmen, cramboes, crammers, cramoisy, crampits, crampons, craniums, creamers, cremains, cremates, crossarm, cumarins, cumquats, cumshaws, curcumas, custumal, czardoms, czarisms, decimals, declaims, disclaim, drachmas, dynamics, embraces, emplaces, escapism, exclaims, facemask, fascisms, grimaces, hammocks, hematics, iotacism, ischemia, jacamars, keramics, laconism, laicisms, leucomas, limacons, localism, lockrams, macadams, macaques, machetes, machines, machismo, machrees, machzors, macrames, macumbas, mafficks, magnesic, majestic, malaccas, mammocks, manacles, manchets, maniocas, marascas, marasmic, marchers, marchesa, marchese, marchesi, mascaras, massacre, masscult, massicot, mastiche, mastitic, matchers, matchups, matrices, mattocks, medevacs, medicals, melanics, menacers, meniscal, mesocarp, meticais, meticals, midspace, minicabs, minicams, minicars, minorcas, miracles, misacted, miscalls, miscarry, miscasts, misclaim, misclass, mismatch, mispatch, misplace, misspace, misteach, mistrace, moccasin, mochilas, monacids, monarchs, monastic, moschate, mossback, mudpacks, muntjacs, muscadel, muscadet, muscatel, muscular, musicale, musicals, musician, mustache, mystical, narcisms, nomarchs, oilcamps, oomiacks, orgasmic, pacifism, panicums, parecism, pemicans, quackism, racemism, racemose, racemous, reclaims, reclames, romances, sachemic, sambucas, sanctums, sapremic, sarcasms, sarcomas, scamming, scammony, scampers, scampies, scamping, scampish, scandium, schemata, schmaltz, schmalzy, schmears, scimetar, scimitar, scleroma, scolioma, scotomas, scramble, scramjet, scrammed, screamed, screamer, scumbags, semantic, semicoma, shamanic, shamrock, simoniac, smackers, smacking, spaceman, spacemen, stickman, stockman, stomachs, stomachy, stomatic, sycamine, sycamore, syngamic, tachisme, tachisms, tombacks, tramcars, tsunamic, unclamps, vasculum, vocalism, yashmacs.

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