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Crossword-Solution: SCAMS 5 letters, 89 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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We have 89 clues for the answer “SCAMS”

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Many involve wiring money 1 answer
Phishing schemes 1 answer
Phishing offers and the like 1 answer
Phishing nets? 1 answer
Phishing lures 1 answer
Phishing expeditions 1 answer
Not real deals 1 answer
Most emails that begin with "You are a winner!" 1 answer
Most deals that sound too good to be true 1 answer
Money-losing ventures 1 answer
Marks' downfalls 1 answer
Many spam messages 1 answer
Phone calls purporting to be from the IRS, say 1 answer
Grifts 1 answer
Grifter's repertoire 1 answer
Grifter's offerings 1 answer
Fraudulent schemes 1 answer
Fraudulent plots 1 answer
Fraudulent offers 1 answer
Fraudulent gambits 1 answer
Fraudster's schemes 1 answer
Fleecing activities 1 answer
Fishy offers 1 answer
Spam emails, often 1 answer
What marks fall for 1 answer
Unscrupulous schemes 1 answer
Three-card monte and others 1 answer
Threatening phone calls purportedly from the I.R.S., e.g. 1 answer
They often take people in 1 answer
They often involve P.O. boxes 1 answer
They hit the mark 1 answer
Swindler's schemes 1 answer
Suspicious offers, often 1 answer
Spammer's offerings 1 answer
Emails that tell you you've won the lottery, e.g. 1 answer
Skin games 1 answer
Sketchy offers 1 answer
Shell games, e.g. 1 answer
Shell games and such 1 answer
Schemes to lighten people's wallets 1 answer
Pyramid schemes, for example 1 answer
Pyramid schemes, e.g. 1 answer
Pro con activities? 1 answer
Ponzi schemes and the like 1 answer
Ponzi schemes 1 answer
Elaborate ploys 1 answer
Deepfakes, e.g. 1 answer
Contract signers' fears 1 answer
Cons are pros at running them 1 answer
Confidence games 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SCAMS (5)

Classic scams include phoning up a mark who has the required information and posing as a field service tech or a fellow employee with an urgent access problem.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Studies repeatedly demonstrated that investors in pyramid schemes realize their dubious nature and stand forewarned by the collapse of other contemporaneous scams.
Crime and Corruption Sam Vaknin 2012
Holt, who wrote notes upon this play, observes, that limpets are in some places called _scams_, therefore I have suffered _scamels_ to stand.
Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies Samuel Johnson 2005
They were the dandies attired in colorful, skin-tight sports suits: thieves, pickpockets, high-tech gear rustlers, black marketeers, professional gamblers, and experts in all the scams that are or ever were.
The Universe -- or Nothing Meyer Moldeven 2006
Over-invoiced contract scams involve the ostensible transfer of amounts obtained through inflated invoices to the bank account of an unrelated foreign firm.
Financial Crime and Corruption Sam Vaknin 2018

Quotes with SCAMS (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
In my dreams, I entered a world where success was based on ethics and proper dealings, not bribes and scams. My vision of sucess including marrying Sophia, having joyful children, unassuming friends, and warmhearted neighbors. I aspired for an environment where I would be valued for my good character, not the strength of my aggression. I wanted to leave West Beirut, the four square miles of a lesser world.
Sam Wazan Trapped in Four Square Miles
While the Texas prison officials remained in the dark about what was going on, they were fortunate that William and Danny had benign motives. Imagine what havoc the two might have caused; it would have been child's play for these guys to develop a scheme for obtaining money or property from unsuspecting victims. The Internet had become their university and playground. Learning how to run scams against individuals or break in to corporate sites would have been a cinch; teenage…
Kevin D. Mitnick The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders & Deceivers
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 183 times in crossword archives (1980–2025).