Crossword-Solution: SCAM 4 letters, 467 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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SCAM anagram AMCS, CAMS, CMAS, MACS, MASC, SMAC

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"Account temporarily suspended" email, usually 1 answer
"Catch Me If You Can" event 1 answer
"Make $10,000 in two days" post, probably 1 answer
"Make money without working" offer, probably 1 answer
"Moneymaking opportunity" that isn't 1 answer
"See who's viewing your profile" on Facebook 1 answer
"You just won a cruise" email, e.g. 1 answer
"You're a winner!" email, often 1 answer
"___ Goddess" (Laci Mosley podcast "dedicated to fraud and all those who practice it") 1 answer
"___ Goddess" (Laci Mosley podcast with segments like "What's Hot in Fraud" and "Historic Hoodwinks") 1 answer
A Ponzi scheme is one 1 answer
A phone call that begins "Hi, this is Mary from the IRS," probably 1 answer
A tourist might fall for one 1 answer
Act of deception 1 answer
Act of fraud 1 answer
Action shared by a shill 1 answer
Almost any "Get rich quick!" offer 1 answer
Almost any offer that's too good to be true 1 answer
Almost every get-rich-quick scheme 1 answer
Amway, some say 1 answer
Anna Delvey endeavor 1 answer
Any pyramid scheme, e.g. 1 answer
Apple varieties / Trick 1 answer
Apt rhyme of {/sham/} 1 answer
Arrangement of hosing? 1 answer
Attorney general's investigation target 1 answer
Bait and switch is one 1 answer
Bait and switch, for one 1 answer
Be a con artist 1 answer
Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, for one 1 answer
Bernie Madoff's hedge fund, e.g. 1 answer
Bit of bunco 1 answer
Bogus deal 1 answer
Bogus offer 1 answer
Bogus plan 1 answer
Bunko 1 answer
Business fraud 1 answer
Call offering you a free vacation, probably 1 answer
Car warranty call, usually 1 answer
Case for the consumer affairs bureau 1 answer
Catfishing, e.g. 1 answer
Cell phone call that reads "UNKNOWN NAME", probably 1 answer
Cellphone alert subject 1 answer
Chain letter, perhaps 1 answer
Con artist's con 1 answer
Con artist's creation 1 answer
Con artist's doings 1 answer
Con artist's game 1 answer
Con artist's hustle 1 answer
Con artist's moneymaker 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SCAM (5)

Sweet and neat! Million dollar embezzlement scam with the SEC's approval." "How much follow up did you do?" Higgins asked as his pen fly across the legal pad.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
Typically, it is a some kind of multi-level marketing operation which involves recruiting more members, or an illegal pyramid scam.
The New Hacker's Dictionary version 4.2.2 Various editors 2002
After much wrangling and recriminations - many politicians seem to have benefited from the scam - the government, faced with elections in September, has recently decided, in defiance of IMF diktats, to offer meager compensation to the afflicted savers.
Crime and Corruption Sam Vaknin 2012
The deck was rent and open up with a great, yawning scam, through which the ocean rushed, driving the craft below the waves as though it had been drawn down by some mighty whirlpool.
The Boy Allies Under Two Flags Robert L. Drake 2004
The cat leaped out upon them, and oh! what havoc she did make among the trou-ble-some creatures! Most of them were soon stretched dead upon the floor, while the rest scam-pered away to their holes, and did not dare to come out again.
Fifty Famous Stories Retold James Baldwin 2006

Quotes with SCAM (3)

Ben laughed. "You think all religions are scams, don't you?""Yes, I suppose I do," Epstein said. "But the religions are mostly scamming themselves. That they scam others is usually a side-effect.
James L. Halperin The First Immortal
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator. What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. S…
Seth Godin Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
We live today amid ritualized anithumanisms. Among those intelligent enough to feel despair, some seek salvation in the literary artist. Artists love flattery; and the scam doesn't work without mystifying the process. The weather is unpredictable, but it is not mysterious. Wall Street is unpredictable, but it is not mysterious. Writing is unpredictable, (like street and sky, there are too many variables.) Its mystery vanishes, like a shadow, the moment the light aimed at your…
Doran Larson
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 957 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).