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scam

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scam/skam/

▶noun informal a dishonest scheme; a fraud. ▶verb (scams, scamming, scammed) swindle.

– derivatives
scammer noun.

– origin 1960s: of unknown origin.

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