History
History
Synonyms
UK
US
Meaning:
beguile

the cheats, deceive (a person)

fool

collusion

a secret agreement or understanding for a deceitful or fraudulent purpose

secret understanding, often with intent to defraud

deceive

to cause (a person) to believe something that is false

mislead; be dishonest

distort

to pull, twist, (something) out of the usual shape; to give a false account of (something)

deform; falsify

exaggerate

to make (something) seem larger, better, worse etc than if really is

overstate, embellish

fraud

(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

gips

lie and deceive

deceive, swindle

hoodwink

to deceive or trick (a person)

deceive

mislead

to cause (a person) to have the wrong idea or opinion or, to act incorrectly

give someone the wrong idea, information

plot

a piece of ground (usually small); a (secret) plan (good or bad) (to do something)

plan, scheme

rook

a kind of large black bird like a crow; castle; to get money from (a person) by cheating or by charging a ridiculously high price

trick

swindle

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

cheating, stealing

treachery

the act, result, of being treacherous

disloyalty, dishonesty

trickery

deception, joke

deception, joke

unethical

not ethical

dishonest, immoral

wiles

tricks used to get something one wants

cunning

SCAM as in Wiktionary
SCAM as in Wikipedia