Maxvorstadt: Hi! Just stumbled upon ths thread, and not sure what exactly a scammer ist and where the word comes from. Am I right when I think a scammer is someone who tries to betray people to get their gamecodes, so they can have the games without buying them, meaning those scammers are thieves?
Yes, you've understood the term correctly. The word is refined from the word "scumbag" since they're so close to each other. Their motives are usually either
a) lack of money, even pennies, which means they need to steal everything, or
b) the lust for power they think they gain from fooling innocent, good people. They have this incorrect perception that since they were successful in tricking another person, they are now above them somehow, when in reality they couldn't be more wrong.