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From scam -er
scammer (plural scammers
( slang ) 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.
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 )
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Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
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)
Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: hîlekar (ku) m or f xapîner (ku) m or f
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Malay: please add this translation if you can
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
