Scam

/skæm/ noun

a fraudulent scheme designed to deceive people and obtain money or valuables

Possibly from 'scamp' or from carnival slang, first recorded in American English in the 1960s

AFbedrog
AMማታለያ
ARاحتيال
BGизмама
BNজালিয়াতি
CAestafa
CSpodvod
DAsvindel
DEBetrug
ELαπάτη
ESestafa
ETpettus
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