Meanings
Noun
1. fraud; swindle; graft; cheating; trick; scam
2. saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them
Kanji used
falsehood
deceive
Pitch accent
Top 7300
Used in vocabulary (26 in total)
swindler; fraudster; trickster; con man
marriage fraud; fake marriage
phone scam involving calls from pretended relatives in distress
Examples (7 in total)
It kinda sounds like a scam.
Please be careful in regard to scam email.
Is this some kind of scam?
Recently there have been a lot of nasty incidents with fraud.
George was tricked into buying the land.
As far as I know, he wasn't involved in that fraud scheme.
What he did is, in plain language, fraud.