Clues for the word "SCAMS"
We've had 61 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 138 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on November 23, 2025.
Referring Clues
- Stings
- Cons
- Rip-offs
- Hustles
- Better Business Bureau concerns
- They often take people in
- Flimflams
- Confidence games
- Fleecing activities
- Con jobs
- Con games
- Grifts
- Shell games
- Not real deals
- Swindles
- Unscrupulous schemes
- Hoaxes
- Puts one over on
- Takes for a ride
- Marks' downfalls
- Grifter's offerings
- Ponzi schemes, e.g.
- Pyramid schemes, e.g.
- Rooks
- Ripoffs
- Defrauds
- Ponzi schemes and the like
- Frauds
- Rackets
- Grifter's repertoire
- Phishing lures
- Shell games and such
- Fleeces
- Does a number on
- Phishing nets?
- Many spam messages
- Contract signers' fears
- Fraudulent schemes
- Phishing expeditions
- Fraudster's schemes
- Contract cons
- Emails that tell you you've won the lottery, e.g.
- Most deals that sound too good to be true
- Bogus offers
- Pulls a fast one on
- Many involve wiring money
- Shell games, e.g.
- Con artists' concoctions
- Suspicious offers, often
- Spam emails, often
- Fraudulent offers
- Sketchy offers
- Phishing schemes
- Pyramid schemes, for example
- Deceptions
- Confidence games, e.g.
- Shifty manoeuvres of a ship around a river
- Calls purportedly from the IRS, e.g.
- Fraudulent gambits
- Swindler's schemes
- Treacherous schemes
Last Seen In
- LA Times - November 23, 2025
- Daily American - September 19, 2025
- Daily American - August 10, 2025
- Daily American - May 06, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 11, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 28, 2024
- USA Today - July 04, 2024
- New York Times - July 03, 2024
- USA Today - May 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - November 26, 2023
- Daily American - September 19, 2023
- Daily American - August 10, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 03, 2023
- LA Times - May 24, 2023
- Penny Dell Sunday - May 21, 2023
- Daily American - May 06, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 17, 2023
- USA Today - March 02, 2023
- LA Times - February 19, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 13, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 03, 2022
- USA Today - August 10, 2022
- LA Times - June 17, 2022
- Universal - February 04, 2018
- Rock n Roll Crossword - January 28, 2018
- New York Times - January 22, 2018
- Universal - January 07, 2018
- LA Times - November 23, 2017
- Universal - November 22, 2017
- Netword - October 12, 2017
- And in 108 more crossword puzzles...