Possible Questions:
- Swindle
- Con game
- Racket
- Trick
- Dupe
- Rip off
- Hoodwink
- Bamboozle
- Cheat
- Fleece
- Deception
- Hoax
- Fraud
- Sting
- Defraud
- Flimflam
- Ruse
- Con job
- Confidence game
- Shell game
- Hustle
- Take to the cleaners
- Take for a ride
- Grifter's game
- Sting operation
- Ripoff
- Rip-off
- Fast one
- Ponzi scheme, e.g.
- Phony deal
- Put something over on
- Sucker play
- Pull a fast one
- Phishing, e.g.
- Take for a ride?
- Fraudulent operation
- Act of fraud
- Telemarketing danger
- Fraudulent scheme
- Cozenage
- Con man's ploy
- Three-card monte, e.g.
- Shell game, e.g.
- Shady deal
- Shady business
- Deceptive scheme
- Con artist's game
- Con artist's art
- Bunco
- Source of illegitimate income
- Something shady
- Pyramid scheme, e.g.
- Ponzi scheme
- One may take you in
- Money-losing proposition
- Grifter's specialty
- Grifter's ploy
- Grifter's forte
- Ensnaring scheme
- E-mail from a Nigerian prince, probably
- Con man's ruse
- Con man's forte
- Cheat out of money
- Bunco game
- Bait and switch, for one
- Unethical way to make money
- Too-good-to-be-true investment
- Three-card monte, notably
- Three-card monte is one
- Pyramid scheme, for one
- Ponzi scheme, for one
- Pigeon drop, for one
- Pigeon drop, e.g.
- Phishing, for one
- Phishing lure
- Nigerian e-mail, sometimes
- Grifter's scheme
- Grifter's plan
- Fast-buck artist's ploy
- E-mail from Nigeria, maybe
- Dupe's undoing
- Dishonest hustle
- Con man's scheme
- Con man's game
- Certain artist's forte
- Bait and switch is one
- Act of deception
- A fast one
- Your cheatin' art
- Too-good-to-be-true offer, often
- Thimblerig, e.g.
- Taking-in activity
- Swindler's speciality
- Swindler's ruse
- Swindler's ploy
- Swindler's plan
- Swindler's enterprise
- Source of ill-gotten gains
- Shell game, for one
- Shady scheme
- Shady plan
- Run a game on
- Run a con on
- Rip off in a way
- Record label fast one
- Pyramid scheme
- Pull a con
- Ponzi game, e.g.
- Ploy that targets the gullible
- Plot that's "pulled"
- Pigeon drop e.g.
- Phone call telling you to pay the IRS immediately or you'll be thrown in jail, e.g.
- Phishing lure?
- Phishing expedition
- Phishing activity
- Phisher's ploy
- Patsy's downfall
- Operation in "The Sting"
- One reported to the Better Business Bureau
- Offer that's too good to be true, often
- Offer that seems too good to be true, probably
- Nigerian lottery e-mail, e.g.
- Nigerian Letter, for one
- Nigerian email, often
- “Moneymaking opportunity” that isn’t
- Matter of confidence?
- Mark time?
- Many an e-mail "click here" offer
- Many a carnival game
- It's got a lot of marks
- It's a ripoff
- It takes folks in
- Investment fraud
- Illegal scheme
- Illegal operation
- Illegal investment scheme
- Hustler's gimmick
- How a fool and his money are parted
- Hornswaggler's forte
- Hood's hoodwink
- Handkerchief switch, e.g.
- Gull's trap
- Grifter's operation
- Grifter's idea
- Grift, e.g.
- Goal of phishing
- Get-rich-quick offer, typically
- Game of no chance
- Free money offer
- Fraudulent plan
- Frank Abagnale hustle
- Flimflam scheme
- Fleecing activity
- Fleecing
- Fast shuffle, so to speak
- Entrapment ploy
- Email from Nigeria, often
- Email for the spam folder, probably
- E-mail offer of $17,000,000.00, e.g.
- E-mail from a Nigerian with $10 million to give you, e.g.
- E-mail from a Nigerian prince, usually
- E-mail from a Nigerian prince, maybe
- E-mail for the spam filter, probably
- Do a Bernie Madoff job on
- Crooked deal
- Contrivance for taking people for a ride
- Contract cheat
- Con man's trick
- Con man's specialty
- Con man's fakery
- Con artist's work
- Con artist's ploy
- Con artist's hustle
- Chain letter, perhaps
- Case for the consumer affairs bureau
- Bunko squad concern
- Bogus plan
- Bogus offer
- Bit of bunco
- Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, for one
- Bernie Madoff's hedge fund, e.g.
- Artist's work?
- Amway, some say
- Almost any "Get rich quick!" offer
- Action shared by a shill
- "You just won a cruise" email, e.g.
- "See who's viewing your profile" on Facebook