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scammed vs conned

Both 'scammed' and 'conned' are correct and commonly used in English to describe being deceived or tricked. They can be used interchangeably in most contexts.

Last updated: March 24, 2024 • 1017 views

scammed

The term 'scammed' is correct and commonly used to describe being deceived or tricked.

It is used to describe situations where someone has been tricked or deceived into giving away money or personal information.

Examples:

I was scammed by an online seller who never sent the product.
She realized she had been scammed when she received a fake email from her bank.
The elderly couple was scammed out of their life savings by a fraudulent investment scheme.
He felt embarrassed after realizing he had been scammed by the fake charity organization.
The tourists were scammed by a taxi driver who charged them double the normal fare.

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We've been scammed again, people.
We got scammed out of $2 million.
Members in this House will know of people who have been scammed, very often vulnerable European citizens - the elderly, for instance.
That's interesting, 'cause some of the people that were scammed were called by a woman.
He was scammed by a guy like max adams.
I mean, no one's getting scammed by anybody.
And don't feel they've been scammed.
And did the computer say these men wanted to be scammed, lied to, cheated on...
So then you started calling the couples that you had scammed and found her at the hotel.
We scammed people all up and down the coast.
She scammed people by making up crazy rituals.
I just got fired 'cause Kelsey Grammer scammed me.
Your father scammed some pretty dangerous people.
Hanna, face it, we got scammed.
Then every second that we delay, innocent people are getting scammed.
That old woman was being scammed by her mechanic.
My kid breezed through this morning And he scammed it.
You got scammed, not me.
Hanna, face it, we got scammed.
Unless you looked at my course schedule and scammed your way into becoming my teacher.

Alternatives:

swindled
duped
defrauded
cheated
tricked

conned

The term 'conned' is correct and commonly used to describe being deceived or tricked.

It is used to describe situations where someone has been tricked or deceived into believing something that is not true, often for personal gain.

Examples:

He felt like he had been conned into buying a worthless piece of art.
The elderly woman was conned by a smooth-talking scam artist.
She realized she had been conned when she found out the real value of the property.
The conman conned several people out of their life savings with his investment scheme.
The students were conned into believing they had won a free trip abroad.

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We find other perps that she's conned, prove a pattern.
Posner realized he'd been conned.
I can't rule out that someone has been conned.
They conned me out of nearly a quarter of a million pounds.
I was conned by some headhunter.
I conned him into letting me stick around long enough to case the place.
He probably doesn't want his fae bosses to know he got conned.
Money that Dante Cole conned from retirees in Scottsdale.
Your father conned a very connected, very dangerous man.
We know you conned us into getting you out of jail.
He conned me into every policy in the world.
The settlers we conned into coming here took to fighting.
I conned a key from the storage company.
In 1927, Gentleman James Grainger conned three marks simultaneously using the Spanish Prisoner scam.
He probably conned his way in.
I think that's the program who conned me.
He conned me and embarrassed me.
I conned my way into the morgue.
We were sharp newspapermen and he conned us.
These the guys who conned him?

Alternatives:

deceived
tricked
swindled
bamboozled
hoodwinked

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