All bait-and-switch synonyms

noun bait-and-switch

• con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
• flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
• hustle — to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
• racket — a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
• rip-off — a rent made by ripping; tear.
• shell game — a sleight-of-hand swindling game resembling thimblerig but employing walnut shells or the like instead of thimblelike cups.
• skin game — a dishonest or unscrupulous business operation, scheme, etc.
• sting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
• swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
• ponzi — a swindle in which a quick return, made up of money from new investors, on an initial investment lures the victim into much bigger risks.
• boiler room — any room in a building (often in the basement) that contains a boiler for central heating, etc
• bunko — bunco
• con job — an act or instance of duping or swindling.
• confidence trick — A confidence trick is a trick in which someone deceives you by telling you something that is not true, often to trick you out of money.
• con game — a swindle involving money, goods, etc, in which the victim's trust is won by the swindler; a shortened form of confidence game