Present participle of bunko; the act of swindling or defrauding someone through a confidence game.
From bunko with the gerund suffix -ing, describing the ongoing action of running bunko schemes.
The word 'bunkoing' entered law enforcement vocabulary as a specific term—organized bunko schemes required their own detective squads, showing how specialized crime had become by the early 1900s.
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