fraud

[1]	deception , trickery , cheating , sharp practice , chicanery , deceit , swindling , double-dealing , duplicity , artifice , craft , guile , humbug , humbuggery , treachery , (Colloq) monkey business , funny business , hanky-panky
[2]	trick , imposter , impostor , hoax , swindle , pretender , fake , deception , cheat , faker , sham , wile , stratagem , shammer , pseudo , dodge , bilk , pseud , role player , ruse , sham , fake , subterfuge , (Colloq) flimflam , (Slang) gyp , rip-off , scam
[3]	deceiver , fraudulence , dupery , trickster , cheat(er) , hoax , humbug , impostor , swindler , put-on , charlatan , humbug , sharper , shark , bilk(er) , quack , mountebank , fake(r) , pretender , bluff(er) , confidence man , inveigler , defrauder , scoundrel , rogue , (Archaic) knave , (Colloq) con man/artist , phoney/(US) phony , flimflam artist , flimflammer , (US/Canadian) four-flusher , (Slang) (US) barracuda