Scammer in a sentence as a noun

We tend to think "is it that hard to tell a scammer from blah legit site?".

A scammer bought it, claimed it was broken, and filed a claim with PayPal.

Add all the warnings you want, the scammer will say "see what facebook doesn't want you to see!!!

I think writing a bot that is able to reply to the scammer is quite doable, since: 1.

Don't just give us the old "you're free to believe me or not" ******** that every scammer says.

The answer is yes because guess what scammers are thinking everyday when they wake up?

The scammers are using linux, which is consistent with both networks that they were seeing in their logs.

It can be easy for someone who spends their day dealing with scammers to see wrongdoing where there is none, and we're sorry that happened here.

I can change the information on my domain to be whoever I want, particularly if I'm a scammer.

All the time I spent on the phone with the scammer was time they couldn't spend targeting vulnerable individuals.

Don't the scammers often use the victimized sellers as drop shippers?Say, Alice lists a laptop on eBay or Craigslist.

Let's say I use this to pay for something I've purchased online, and I later realize the seller is a scammer and want to issue a chargeback.

Amazon is actually going out of its way to provide excellent customer service, and is being exploited by a scammer.

From a game theoretic perspective where no parties can be held accountable, being a scammer or hacker will always yield higher pay-offs.

If scammers can get people to open the developer console and paste code, they can get them to install the "developer tools extension" and then open the console and paste code.

For every time Paypal misidentifies a target and blocks their payments, they correctly identify scammers many more times.

The competitor goes elsewhere, and the scammer maintains access to artificially cheap ad inventory, since there are fewer bidders.

I suppose it boils down to this "By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor.

One thing I have been wanting to do for a long time about Nigerian like scams, but never got around doing it, was the following:\n 1. create some bait email accounts from gmail, yahoo, and so on, and expose them somewhere on internet so they get harvested by scammers.\n 2. write a dumb program that is able to do some primitive parsing of the emails from the scammers, and reply to them.

Regardless, scammer or not, we expect all of our representatives to deal with customers courteously and professionally, and will redouble our efforts to ensure that happens in the future.

I've heard that for many scams it's actually the opposite: They intentionally throw in huge warning flags so that the people who initially "bite" are less likely to have second thoughts later on, and thus the scammer wastes less time chasing false leads.

For example, let's say the email from the scammer is: Dear friend,\n I am the widow of the former Prime Minister of Nigeria and I need your help to get out of Nigeria where my life is threatened, along with the $50M currently in my bank account.

It's entirely concievable you'd like to exercise replacement rights from Texas, even though you've ordered it from NY.| How did the scammer know about my order in the first place to social engineer the replacement request?Via: either buying order requests, using third-party honeypots to capture your info, using the domain registrar, or a combination of any of these.| Why haven't Amazon black-listed the 13820 NE Airport Way; Portland, Oregon address as a destination for replacements?

Scammer definitions

noun

a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

See also: swindler defrauder chiseller chiseler gouger grifter