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scam
noun as in swindle
Example Sentences
The demand for Glastonbury tickets inevitably attracts scam artists and fraudsters, who prey on people's desperation to separate them from their money.
Trump once also called crypto a scam, but he changed his tune on the campaign trail this year, promising to make the US the “crypto capital of the planet”.
Its price is rocketing because the president-elect has vowed to make the US "the crypto capital of the planet" - a remarkable turnaround given as recently as 2021 he was calling Bitcoin a "scam."
The scam started when Mrs Campbell, from Bleasby in Nottinghamshire, responded to a fake TV licensing email and entered her credit card details.
Felicity Campbell has been describing the moment she realised she had been caught in an elaborate scam by someone pretending to be from her bank.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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