something given, offered or promised in order to influence or persuade a person (often to do something wrong)

payoff to influence illegal or wrong activity

(an act of) criminal dishonesty; a person who pretends to be qualified, to have authority or to want to be kind, but who is or does not

trickery, deception

to take (a person's property) secretly and without right

take something without permission

to cheat a person (in order to get money etc)

cheating, stealing

to use threats against (a person); to warn of (something bad); to seem likely to occur or come

warn, pressure