All fraud synonyms

noun fraud

• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• deceitful — If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.
• scam — a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
• blackmail — Blackmail is the action of threatening to reveal a secret about someone, unless they do something you tell them to do, such as giving you money.
• hoax — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• misrepresentation — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
• graft — the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc.
• non-spurious — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
• duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• fake — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
• sting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
• shakedown — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• 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.
• sell — to transfer (goods) to or render (services) for another in exchange for money; dispose of to a purchaser for a price: He sold the car to me for $1000.
• imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
• double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
• string — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
• song — Ailing [ahy-ling] /ˈaɪˈlɪŋ/ (Show IPA), Soong, Ai-ling.
• chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
• skunk — a small North American mammal, Mephitis mephitis, of the weasel family, having a black coat with a white, V -shaped stripe on the back, and ejecting a fetid odor when alarmed or attacked.
• flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
• craft — You can refer to a boat, a spacecraft, or an aircraft as a craft.
• hocus-pocus — a meaningless chant or expression used in conjuring or incantation.
• line — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
• treachery — violation of faith; betrayal of trust; treason.
• hustle — to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
• swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
• guile — insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
• smoke — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
• sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
• con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
• dupery — an act, practice, or instance of duping.
• barratry — (formerly) the vexatious stirring up of quarrels or bringing of lawsuits
• chicane — a bridge or whist hand without trumps
• fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
• forger — to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
• crook — A crook is a dishonest person or a criminal.
• counterfeit — Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.
• bastard — Bastard is an insulting word which some people use about a person, especially a man, who has behaved very badly.
• racketeer — a person engaged in a racket.
• phony — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
• pretender — a person who pretends, especially for a dishonest purpose.
• quack — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
• deceiver — to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude: They deceived the enemy by disguising the destroyer as a freighter.
• impostor — a person who practices deception under an assumed character, identity, or name.
• swindler — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
• mechanic — a person who repairs and maintains machinery, motors, etc.: an automobile mechanic.