Scam

Noun

 * 1) Fraudulent deal.
 * That marketing scheme looks like a scam to me.

Synonyms

 * con game
 * See also Thesaurus:deception

Verb

 * 1) To defraud or embezzle.
 * They tried to scam her out of her savings.

Synonyms

 * con

Thesaurus
ballot-box stuffing, beat, beguile of, bilk, bunco, burn, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, cozenage, crib, defraud, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, do in, do out of, dodge, euchre, finagle, fishy transaction, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudge, gerrymandering, gouge, graft, grift, gull, gyp, gyp joint, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, illicit business, imposition, imposture, mulct, pack the deal, pigeon, practice fraud upon, racket, rook, screw, sell gold bricks, shave, shortchange, stack the cards, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, thimblerig, throw a fight, victimize

Etymology
US carnival slang. Possibly from scamp:

The word "scam" became common use among the US "drug culture" in early 1980 after Operation ABSCAM, an FBI sting operation directed at public officials, became public.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"sk{m/}}

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish: bondefanger
 * Dutch: oplichting, deceptie, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German: Vorschussbetrug
 * Hebrew: תרגיל עוקץ
 * Ido: eskroko
 * Ido: eskroko


 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Norwegian: bondefangeri
 * Polish:, szwindel
 * Portuguese: pilantragem
 * Russian:, , ; partly: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: lurendrejeri
 * Turkish: dolandırma
 * Turkish: dolandırma

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 欺詐, 欺诈, 騙局, 骗局, 詐騙, 诈骗
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * French: ,


 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Russian:
 * Russian:
 * Russian:

Anagrams

 * cams
 * CASM
 * CSMA
 * macs, Macs
 * masc
 * mcas