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# scam

«scam» in Mova's school dictionary: **a dishonest trick to get money or personal information…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a scam, scams); verb (scam, scams, scammed, scamming)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A scam is a dishonest trick to get money or personal information from people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scam/#m1)

2) To scam someone is to cheat them with such a trick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scam/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In online safety lessons: scams can be fake messages, prize wins, «free» game currency, emails pretending to be from a bank or a friend; never share passwords, codes or addresses, never click strange links, and always tell a trusted adult. If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Phrases: online scam, phone scam, scammer, a scam message.

### examples

- That email saying I won a phone is a scam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scam/#x1)
- Do not click the link; it might be a scam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scam/#x2)
- A scammer tried to trick Grandma on the phone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scam/#x3)
- Free game coins for your password? That is a scam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scam/#x4)
- He was scammed out of his pocket money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scam/#x5)
- Tell an adult if you think it is a scam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scam/#x6)
- Real companies never ask for your password. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scam/#x7)
- If it seems too good to be true, it is probably a scam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scam/#x8)

### note

Countable. Past: scammed (double m). A person who scams is a scammer. A scam is a kind of lie for money; being tricked by one is not your fault, but tell someone quickly.

### In the corpora

- [A text saying a parcel is held and asking for a small payment is a common scam to steal bank details.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/18/)
- [Famous faces are used in scams; a real giveaway never asks for your password.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/12/)
- [Giveaways asking for card details are scams, even if a famous face seems to promise them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/12-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie/16/)
- [Some fundraising scams use AI-made videos of animals or people that do not exist to get money from kind viewers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/6/)
- [Automated phone calls, or robocalls, use recorded or AI voices; some are surveys and some are scams.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scam» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scam/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.