to rip off; to extort (money); extortion; blackmail

to cheat

treachery; devious; a rogue

to cheat; to swindle; to pretend; to feign; to draw sb out; to try to extract information by deceit or bluff

crafty; cunning; deceitful

fraud; deception

extortion and blackmail (idiom)

deceitful; crafty; artful

deceitful

to be linked to fraudulent activity

wire fraud (abbr. for 電信詐騙|电信诈骗[dian4 xin4 zha4 pian4])

tricky and hypocritical

to extort under false pretenses; to blackmail; to bluff; to defraud

to claim ownership (of stolen goods)

to swindle; to defraud

to bluff; to bluster; to intimidate

sudden movement of a corpse (superstition); fig. sudden torrent of abuse

to clear up (of weather after rain)

to feign death; to fake death

to feign illness; to malinger

falsehood; lies; fabrication

feigned surrender

to defraud; to obtain by fraud; to embezzle; fraudulent

sly; treacherous

sinister and deceitful

extortion

deceiver

fraud

(idiom) deception is justified in war

lit. you hoodwink me and I cheat you (idiom); fig. each tries to outwit the other; deceit and treachery

brutal, greedy, arrogant and deceitful (idiom)

to deceive and swindle across the board (idiom)

wire fraud

phishing

the unvarnished truth is better than a cunning ruse (idiom); honesty is the best policy