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
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Used in vocabulary (26 in total)
swindler; fraudster; trickster; con man
marriage fraud; fake marriage
phone scam involving calls from pretended relatives in distress
variant of bank-transfer fraud
petty swindling; petty swindler
clickbaiting; giving something a misleading title
fraud based on demanding payment for false claims or non-existent bills
one-click fraud (online fraud and extortion technique often used by spammers)
phone scam involving calls from pretended relatives in distress
phone scam involving calls from pretended relatives in distress
telephone fraud where the caller pretends to be a relative of the victim
phone scam involving calls from pretended relatives in distress
phone scam involving calls from pretended relatives in distress
Nigerian fraud; 419 fraud
smartphone app malware; Trojan horse app
Examples (7 in total)
It kinda sounds like a scam.
Please be careful in regard to scam email.
Is this some kind of scam?