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Swindling
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Refers to knowingly cheating or defrauding a person out of money or property by means of gaining his or her confidence through misrepresentation.
Alternative terms
UF
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419 fraud
UF
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419 scams
UF
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Advance fee fraud
UF
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Bunko
UF
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Cheating
UF
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Con
UF
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Confidence game
UF
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Confidence trick
UF
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Estafa
UF
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Flimflam
UF
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Get-rich-quick schemes
UF
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Graft
UF
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Grift
UF
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Matrix scheme
UF
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Pharming
UF
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Phishing
UF
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Ponzi scheme
UF
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Prisoner Letter Scam
UF
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Pyramid scheme
UF
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Romance fraud
UF
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Romance scam
UF
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Romance tricks
UF
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Scam
UF
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Schemes
UF
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Swindle
UF
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Swindler
UF
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Swindles
UF
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Theft by deception
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Fraud
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Date of creation
06-Nov-2011
Accepted term
06-Nov-2011
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