verb
- past tense and past participle of scam; to have defrauded someone through a dishonest scheme
Usage: informal
Examples
- She was scammed out of her life savings by fake investment advisors.
- The elderly man got scammed by a phone caller pretending to be his grandson.
- I think I was scammed when I bought this supposedly designer watch online.
- Many people have been scammed by fake charity organizations.
- He realized he’d been scammed when the product never arrived.
- The tourists were scammed by street vendors selling counterfeit goods.