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Son with scam: teen regularly affected (8)

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I believe the answer is:

stricken

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'affected' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

'son with scam teen regularly' is the wordplay.
'son' becomes 's' (genealogical abbreviation for son).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'scam' becomes 'trick' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'regularly' indicates alternate letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
The alternating letters of 'teen' are 'en'.
's'+'trick'+'en'='STRICKEN'

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(Other definitions for stricken that I've seen before include "Risk cent, being affected as by grief" , "Word that can be appended to both 1 and 2 down" , "Severely afflicted" , "Hit" , "Wounded" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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