1. A concerted effort to achieve a goal which relies on deceit to be successful: It appears that some candidates are running scampaigns to get nominated for or to win political offices.
2. Etymology: a neologism that blends scam + campaign and apparently came from advertising businesses in order to fake advertising campaigns for nonexistent products that were submitted to "ad-of-the-year awards" and which can now be applied to political campaigns and other activities.

1. To be involved in an effort to achieve some objective by using deceitful procedures: There have been some people who were scampaigning to win political elections.
2. Etymology: a term that blends scam + campaign which has been coined to form a new word.