The Clue
Ensnaring scheme (4 letter answer)
The Answer
SCAM
Tags
Notes
The answer SCAM is seen frequently, appearing about once every 80 puzzles.
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Fleece
Fool
Hustle
Ripoff
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Swindle
Con game
Con job
Confidence game
Fraudulent operation
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Phishing lure?
Pyramid scheme
Run a game on
Shell game
Sucker play
Swindler's ploy
Swindler's ruse
Take for a ride
Thimblerig, e.g.
Action shared by a shill
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Con man's ploy
Con man's ruse
Con man's scheme
Case for the consumer affairs bureau
Contrivance for taking people for a ride
Fast shuffle, so to speak
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E-mail offer of $17,000,000.00, e.g.
Definition
SCAM as a noun:
1. (scam, cozenage) = a fraudulent business scheme
SCAM as a verb:
1. (victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con) = 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"