Director John Flynn, in an interview, said of the production: ''...it was just another assignment. Showtime's executives liked 'Nails' so much they immediately offered me 'Scam'. We shot most of it in Jamaica. It was a privilege to work with Chris Walken. What a fine actor he is. Miguel Ferrer and Martin Donovan are also first-rate talents, but Lorraine Bracco was clinically depressed at the time, having trouble with her boyfriend Edward James Olmos and her ex-husband Harvey Keitel. So Lorraine wasn't at the top of her game in 'Scam'.''
This tele-movie was made and first broadcast about only a year after its source novel 'Ladystinger' by Craig Smith had been first published in 1992. Smith also penned the script for this film.
In this Christopher Walken movie, 'Scam' (1993) (TV), Jack Shanks (Christopher Walken) says in one of his schemes, that he is a mortician from Milwaukee. In the later Christopher Walken film, 'Undertaking Betty'/'Plots with a View' (2002), funeral director Frank Featherbed (Christopher Walken) says he ''...specialised in accident victims back home in Milwaukee'' where he ''graduated from the Sheboygan School of Morticians.''
Debut produced screenplay for a feature film production of writer Craig Smith.
The nick-name of the mob boss Albert Magliocco (Daniel von Bargen) was ''Headache''.