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an immoral way of cheating someone out of their money or causing unsafe situations

scam, cozenage(verb)

a fraudulent business scheme

victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con(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"

an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value

that's just a scam to bilk insurance companies for staged accidents

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