SCAM

• (noun) a fraudulent business scheme

  synonyms : cozenage

• (verb) deprive of by deceit

  "He swindled me out of my inheritance", "She defrauded the customers who trusted her", "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

  synonyms : bunco , con , defraud , diddle , gip , goldbrick , gyp , hornswoggle , mulct , nobble , rook , short-change , swindle , victimize

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