Slang for fraud.

Fraudulent plan or scheme designed to separate a consumer from their money without delivering on promised goods, services (training) or value.

A trick to get people to give up something of value, such as money or property. Scams succeed because of victims' innocence or greed.

a fraudulent business scheme

SCAM stands for Simple Configure for Automatic Makefiles. From a standard Makefile , it creates a full Makefile with all standard targets . It can be used to look for specific components/libraries, like autoconf. It does not need to be extended to look for most libraries.

This SCAM is actually a good thing. It allows SCSI devices to automatically be configured with an ID number, even if they aren't assigned one. This makes adding SCSI devices much easier.

SCSI Configuration Automatically

This is also known as Plug and Play for SCSI. Using this specification, the SCSI host adapter is able to automatically select the SCSI ID of itself and attached SCSI devices. It can also enable/disable termination as required to properly terminate the SCSI bus. This is an attempt to make SCSI easier to use, since the user no longer has to worry about setting SCSI ID jumpers or SCSI bus termination.

A plan, sometimes dishonest, for getting something for less than its value.

A clever and dishonest plan or course of action (L)

Purposely distorting the truth in order to get someone else to part with something of value. Scams can be small or large operations involving few or many people.